(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.
Serf
Definition:
(v. t.) A servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countries attached to the soil and transferred with it, as formerly in Russia.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is bad news for aggregators whose digital serfs cut, paste, compile and mangle abstracts of news stories that real media outlets produce at great expense.
(2) His moment of fame is over and he vanishes into the shadowlands of Britain's serf-labour force.
(3) The Pavlovs, a highly achievement-oriented family descending from a lowly serf, improved their social status by serving the Russian Orthodox Church.
(4) They desired, rather, that it be lived on a higher level than that of a serf, treated as an inconvenience by a moribund oligarchy.
(5) It is the centenary of President Lincoln's inauguration, and of the beginning of the Civil War which ended with the liberation of the American slaves; it is also the centenary of the decree that emancipated the Russian serfs.
(6) At their best, blogs such as Nightjack, or the Civil Serf who revealed life in a Whitehall office before also being exposed, made the public services more open, and improved debate about how they should run.
(7) It is "simply disgusting at a time when people are struggling to heat their homes, these energy barons are treating them like serfs, and the government and the regulator are letting them get away with it," he said.
(8) So, he put his best serfs on it and came up with a birth certificate naming his father, Fred.
(9) The oldest is a 64-year-old who fled civil war only to find herself virtually imprisoned in the UK as an unpaid domestic serf.
(10) This threat is used to justify the absence of a constitution, the destruction of the judicial system, and the implementation of indefinite national service that allows the government to treat each civilian as a modern-day serf for their whole life.
(11) As always, the rich and powerful want to know all they can about us – "the serfs and slaves" as Assange called us – while letting us know as little as possible about them.
(12) The situation in the UK (as in Italy) continues to be insupportable, yet somewhat like "serfs", we've seemed resigned to suffering it, as if no serious alternative existed.
(13) In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill into law which introduced some protections for these imported serfs, under what has become known as the guest-worker program.
(14) Almost all low-paid work is essential: a living wage would stop cheapskate employers scrounging off tax credits and importing what too often looks like serf-labour.
(15) Thirty per cent are labourers, labour tenants, and squatters on white farms and work and live under conditions similar to those of the serfs of the middle ages.
(16) A case could be made that the unhappy family of the opening is the Russian aristocracy in the 1870s, trying to hold the line against excessive change after the grant of freedom to millions of human beings it had owned as slaves, the peasant serfs, in 1861.
(17) But all the baggage of that word (unelected, concentrated power keeping serfs in chains) has no meaning at all applied to Christine Blower, the elected representative of working people whose decisions she can argue for or against but must always reflect.
(18) "Knowledge has always flowed upwards, to bishops and kings not down to serfs and slaves.
(19) That was Charles – impatient, controlling but also thoughtful towards his serfs.
(20) Back then Wimbledon felt like – in fact prided itself on being – a leftover from some ancien regime, with the players toiling and serfing on the lawns of a feudal estate.