(n.) A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [See Illust.] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key.
(n.) A toggle.
(v. t.) To fasten with a cotter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paul O’Connell’s cool head leads Ireland through Six Nations furnace | Andy Bull Read more “We were exposed to a very good team,” said Cotter.
(2) In contrast, the reductive reaction of sperm whale myoglobin with CBrCl3 results in addition of the CCl3.radical to the 2-vinyl moiety of the heme group (Osawa, Y., Highet, R. J., Murphy, C. M., Cotter.
(3) We talked about Brown v Board , the same-sex marriage and Affordable Care Act cases, what happens when you have a vacancy in the supreme court that results in a four-four split ,” said Cotter.
(4) I wish [the Scotland coach] Vern Cotter could come out and say I’m angry.
(5) Police said the bodies had been released to their grieving families by Birmingham and Solihull coroner Aidan Cotter.
(6) The residue is then hydrolyzed with 0.2 M HCl to liberate the "monophosphoryl" lipid A degradation products (Qureshi, N., Cotter, R. J. and Takayama, K. (1986) J. Microbiol.
(7) Luckily for Vern Cotter’s team it was ruled out for a knock-on at the final ruck but a subsequent Foley penalty gave Australia a six-point cushion entering the final quarter.
(8) The base sequence of DNA has been shown to influence the kinds and amounts of alkylation of purine bases by N-methyl-N-nitrosourea [W. T. Briscoe and L-E. Cotter, Chem.
(9) Cork: Cafe Paradiso Rooms Facebook Twitter Pinterest Strictly speaking, you can only book into these two smart rooms above Denis Cotter’s famed Cafe Paradiso restaurant in Cork city as part of a dinner, B&B package for two.
(10) An attempt was made to expand the paradigm published by Spradlin, Cotter, and Baxley (1973).
(11) "We don't have a big enough workforce to get things done," said Tim Cotter, an executive at Falklands Islands Development Corp. "In the short term, we could employ seasonal workers from St Helena and South America, and those who like it, and fit in, will stay.
(12) As Jim Cotter wrote 20 years ago: "There are four stages in the church's response to any challenge to its tradition.
(13) Executive headteacher, Paul Cotter, said: “It simply cannot be the right decision to block more schools from benefiting from solar power.
(14) As part of an ACS project to educate people, Love our Constitution, Dan Cotter, an attorney in Chicago, gave a talk to a troop of Boy Scouts there last Monday night.
(15) Cotter said he intended to review the decision but his Australian counterpart, Michael Cheika, reckoned it was simply another example of rugby’s slim margins.
(16) If Maitland had caught the ball – and he clearly tried to – he would, as his coach, Vern Cotter, pointed out, have been away and may well have scored.
(17) Dennis Cotter's braised turnip galette Denis Cotter's braised turnip galette of portobello mushrooms and chestnuts with a red wine sauce And finally, this lovely Irish recipe from Dennis Cotter, who runs the renowned vegetarian restaurant Cafe Paradiso in Cork.
(18) Just as a fan remonstrated in front of the Scottish coaching box, shouting: “You should be ashamed,” at Vern Cotter, the full-back burst over the Irish line and for all the world appeared to get the ball down.
Peasant
Definition:
(n.) A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.
(a.) Rustic, rural.
Example Sentences:
(1) Massive protests in the 1990s by Indian, Latin American and south-east Asian peasant farmers, indigenous groups and their supporters put the companies on the back foot, and they were reluctantly forced to shelve the technology after the UN called for a de-facto moratorium in 2000.
(2) Westminster wits had taken to ridiculing the rebel movement against Gordon Brown as a "peasants' revolt", a cohort without influence.
(3) Agroecology guarantees land to peasants, species diversity, decent work and food sovereignty, among other principles.
(4) As secretary general of La Via Campesina , the transnational peasant movement, he is the public voice of nearly 200 million small-scale producers, landless people, and farm and food workers in more than 180 organisations across nearly 90 countries.
(5) Cinematically, RED SORGHUM achieved a fantastically rich colour palette in its politically less-than-correct depiction of Chinese peasant life – blood and earth predominate – and trod a careful political line by focusing on atrocities by the invading Japanese rather than internal repression.
(6) Tellingly, loyal peasants relate how Guzmán chartered aircraft to take their children to the state capital for medical treatment, like a good old-school mafia don.
(7) It is expected that among the pupils of vocational mining schools who usually come from numerous peasant and working class families nutritional mistakes may occur very often.
(8) Nordestinos brought their hearty, meaty peasant cuisine with them, and one former factory worker, Jose Oliveira de Almeid, called simply Seu Ze, opened a small restaurant called Mocotó in the working-class suburb of Villa Medeiros.
(9) I might have said a few things after other forms of medication that I shouldn’t have done, but then again we all have, haven’t we?” Smith stood down as candidate for South Basildon and East Thurrock – regarded as one of Ukip’s most winnable target constituencies – this month after the release of a recording of a phone call in which he mocked gay party members as “poofters”, joked about shooting people from Chigwell in a “peasant hunt” and referred to someone as a “Chinky bird”.
(10) The field trial indicated that the grass carp could not only cut down the mosquito larvae population but also benefit the peasants by increasing the production of both fish and rice.
(11) Two ethnic groups in Laos were compared: the Hmong (or Meo), a tribal group with access to opium in their homes; and the Lao, a peasant people with more limited access, usually in opium dens.
(12) This case is observed in a 24 years old woman patient, of peasant extraction, who presents tumoration of the left hemiface, irregularly oval, 18 x 25 cm.
(13) In rural areas, plantation owners have a grip on local politics in the northeast that is little short of feudal, while the soy and cattle barons of the interior push landless peasants and Indian communities further to the margins.
(14) La Via Campesina has been lobbying in Geneva for a UN declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas.
(15) The newspaper said he joked about “shooting peasants”, referred to a woman with a Chinese name as a “chinky”, made claims he later retracted about the party leader, Nigel Farage, and called Steven Woolfe, Ukip’s immigration spokesman, a “fucking carpetbagger” and an “arsehole”.
(16) Historically, our masters have always imagined we lowly peasants will digest information more easily if it is written, for example, in a speech bubble coming out of the mouth of an imaginary squirrel pedestrian in yellow loon pants.
(17) Studies about life-time sport of different groups of population in Switzerland showed that 82% of 1990 apprentices in the town of Zürich and 59% of young peasants were active in sports in their leisure time.
(18) The article reports the results of the investigation on atmospheric pollution and mercury poisoning caused by the peasants mercury smelting.
(19) And, like all peasant messiahs, Mao promised a society in which all men would be equal.
(20) But soon after being appointed archbishop in 1977, he became a staunch critic of the military government after it began killing, kidnapping and arresting priests who had been organising peasants and supporting workers’ rights.