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Found 5 hits - Term: cottage, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cottage \cot"tage\ k?t"t?j; 48, n. from cot a cottage.
   a small house; a cot; a hut.
   1913 webster

   note: the term was formerly limited to a habitation for the
         poor, but is now applied to any small tasteful
         dwelling; and at places of summer resort, to any
         residence or lodging house of rustic architecture,
         irrespective of size.
         1913 webster

   cottage allotment. see under alloment. eng.

   cottage cheese, the thick part of clabbered milk strained,
      salted, and pressed into a ball.
      1913 webster
see also:
cot cottage allotment alloment cottage cheese 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
cottage
     n : a small house with a single story syn: bungalow
see also:
bungalow 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
28 moby thesaurus words for "cottage":
   aldine, arabesque, byzantine, canevari, etruscan, grolier,
   harleian, jansenist, maioli, roxburgh, blockhouse, box, bungalow,
   cabin, chalet, cot, cote, dentelle, fanfare, hut, lodge, log cabin,
   love nest, pied-a-terre, pointille, shack, shanty, snuggery




[4] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
cottage
   1. a booth in a vineyard isa. 1:8; a temporary shed covered
   with leaves or straw to shelter the watchman that kept the
   garden. these were slight fabrics, and were removed when no
   longer needed, or were left to be blown down in winter job
   27:18.
   
     2. a lodging-place rendered "lodge" in isa. 1:8; a
   slighter structure than the "booth," as the cucumber patch is
   more temporary than a vineyard isa. 24:20. it denotes a frail
   structure of boughs supported on a few poles, which is still in
   use in the east, or a hammock suspended between trees, in which
   the watchman was accustomed to sleep during summer.
   
     3. in zeph. 2:6 it is the rendering of the hebrew _keroth_,
   which some suppose to denote rather "pits" r.v. marg., "caves"
   or "wells of water," such as shepherds would sink.
   

[5] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
cottage, estates. a small dwelling house. see 1 tho. co. litt. 216; sheph. 
touchst. 94; 2 bouv. inst. n. 1571, note. 
     2. the grant of a cottage, it is said, passes a small dwelling-house, 
which has no land belonging to it. shep. to. 94. 




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Cottage >> C Words
Cottage, definition of term: Cottage
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Cottage Cheese >> C Words
Cottage Cheese, definition of term: Cottage Cheese
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