Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A washer or flat disk of metal to go under a bolt-head or nut and increase the bearing area of the fastening.
- noun A disk of leather placed over the head of a mop to keep the strands together and prevent. water from running up the handle.
- noun In mech., same as
cotter . - noun A small iron bolt for a window.
- noun A trammel to support a pot over a fire. Brockett. Also
cottrel . - noun The horizontal bar in an old English chimney. See
back-bar .
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Examples
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He looked at the fire of logs, with its one flame pirouetting on the top in a dying dance after the breakfast-cooking and boiling, and it seemed to jig to his inward tune; also at the two chimney crooks dangling down from the cotterel or cross-bar, plumed with soot which quivered to the same melody; also at the half-empty kettle whining an accompaniment.
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He looked at the fire of logs, with its one flame pirouetting on the top in a dying dance after the breakfast-cooking and boiling, and it seemed to jig to his inward tune; also at the two chimney crooks dangling down from the cotterel, or cross-bar, plumed with soot, which quivered to the same melody; also at the half-empty kettle whining an accompaniment.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884
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