noun. See cotter.

noun. In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm.

noun. Alternative form of cotter. (one performing labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage)

noun. a medieval English villein

"Nonetheless, the population explosion within the cottier and laboring class increased the aggregate dependence on the potato steadily and dramatically after the turn of the nineteenth century."

helot  serf  villein  

cottager  peasant  

cottar  cotter