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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Butter and cheese were made on practically every farm and even the cottager killed and salted his own bacon.
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In pastoral Suffolk fewer than half this class were dependent on wages, presumably younger men who were not yet cottagers.
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Legislation may therefore have done relatively little to help tied cottagers or to improve low cost agricultural housing.
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Many of the cottagers in the neighbourhood keep one or more of these quaint pets.
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The county was characterised instead by numerous small farmers and cottagers.
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They set up the pageant in a village street, and not one cottager came out to greet them.
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Typically they were smallholders or cottagers, village craftsmen and superior servants.
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Whether the passage is a direct reference to enclosure or, more probably, to disagreements among cottagers, is not certain.