Sc. [f. COT sb.1 + TOWN.] A village or hamlet of cot-houses.
1446. in Cartul. Aberdeen, 8 (Jam.). And the Cotton sal frely occupy the ta side of the said lonyng on the north part, and the hospitale on the south side.
1561. Reg. St. Andrews Kirk Sess. (1889), I. 114. To put hyr in conjunct fe of the cottoun of Forret.
1813. J. Headrick, Agric. Forfarshire, 137. Cottagers are collected in small villages, called cottowns, where they occupy a house and garden, and sometimes keep a cow, under the farmer.
