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(Eccl.)

A small house; a cot; a hut.

Set or covered with cottages. Even humble Harting's cottaged vale. Collins.

Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

One who lives in a cottage.

A cottager; a cottier. Burns. Through Sandwich Notch the West Wind sang Good morrow to the cotter. Whittier.

A soft ornamental terra-cotta pottery, sold in the biscuit state for decorating.

allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person. Cottage allotment, an allotment of a small portion of land to a country laborer for garden cultivation. [Eng.]

An abode; a cottage. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. It was a relief to dismiss them [Sir Roger's servants] into little beings within my manor. Steele.

The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.

A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier. The cottar, the bordar, and the laborer were bound to aid in the work of the home farm. J. R. Green.

A chamber or a cottage. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat. Shenstone. B. Johnson.

A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda. [India]

A cottage or small house; a hut. Swift. A hunting cabin in the west. E. Everett.

A hut; a cottage; a small house. [Obs.] Hearken a while from thy green cabinet, The rural song of careful Colinet. Spenser.

ly last for several days, during which those present lodge in tents, temporary houses, or cottages. -- Camp stool, the same as camp chair, except that the stool has no back. -- Flying camp (Mil.), a camp or body of troops formed for rapid motion from one place to another. Farrow. -- To pitch (a) camp, to set up the…

A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.

through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft. Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. Milton.

Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep. [Prov. Eng.] "The cottage in a chine." J. Ingelow.