dial. Also cotterell, cotteril(l, cottrel, -il, kotrell. [Closely related to COTTER sb.2, which may be a shortened form, or the primitive of which this is a dim. So far as evidence has been found, cotterel is the earlier. The connection of sense between 1 and 2 is not clear; they belong also to different localities.]
1. = COTTER (in senses a and b). Chiefly north.
1570. Louth Church Acc., III. 66. For xxx cotterelles and viil wedges to the belles ijs. iiiid.
1584. Vestry Bks. (Surtees), 18. Item given to James Huntlye for makinge kotrells, housses, bolts, and nales, to the bells, vij d.
1625. Inv., in Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., s.v., Two paire of Cotterells or Copsoles.
1641. Best, Farm. Bks. (Surtees), 15–6. The 5th thinge belonginge to a barre [of a hurdle] is cotterills, which … serve in steade of pinnes, being something like unto wood-pinnes but that they have a notch in the midst that they beinge once knocked in they cannot come forth againe; they are made to keepe the spelles fast in their heades.
1703. Thoresby, Lett. to Ray (E. D. S.), Cottrel, a piece of iron with a hole in to fasten.
1794. W. Felton, Carriages (1801), II. 193. The perch-bolt Key or Cotterell, is a thin piece of iron, fixed through the eye of the perch-bolt.
1873. Gloss. Swaledale, Yorksh., Cotterell, a cloven pin to fasten a bolt.
1876. Robinson, Whitby Gloss., Cotteril, a metal pin put through a bolt-end, so as to prevent the bolt being drawn outward from its place. [So in Glossaries of Cheshire, Cumberland, etc.]
1879. Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., Cottril, an iron pin passing through a shutter, and fastened on the inside by a peg fitting into a hole at the end.
2. A trammel, crane, or bar, from which a pot or kettle is hung over a fire. Southern dial.
1674. Guidott, Observ. Bath, in Harl. Misc. (Malh.), IV. 130. As rust is bred upon pot-hooks and cotterels.
1674. Ray, S. & E. C. Words, 62. A Cottrel … a trammel to hang the Pot on over the fire.
1871. J. R. Wise, New Forest, Gloss., Cotterel, the crane to which the kettle or pot is fastened so as to hang over the fire.
1875. W. D. Parish, Sussex Dial., Cotteril, a pothook; a hook to hang spits on.
3. A washer.
1869. Lonsdale Gloss., Cotterel, the small round iron plat between the nut of a screw and the wood to which it is screwed.
1877. E. Peacock, N. W. Linc. Gloss., Cotterell, a washer, or broad thin ring of metal placed below the head or nut of a bolt, to prevent it from crushing into the wood. A piece of leather of similar shape used to keep the strands of a mop together.
4. Comb., as cotterel-bolt, -lug.
1850. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., XI. I. 246. Held in its position … by means of iron pins or small cotterel-bolts passing through holes in the side of the grooves.
1888. Berksh. Gloss., Cotteralugg, a bar across the chimney breast to which is fastened the pot-hook.
