Hist. Also coth-. [f. COT sb.1 + LAND. Early documentary evidence shows chiefly the latinized forms cotlandum, cotlanda.] The piece of arable land (of about 5 acres) held along with his cot by the Old English cotset or cottar.
a. 1150. in Monast. Angl., I. 325. Item una virgata terræ, cum dimidia unius Cotlandi tota, sicut fuerat Walteri. Ibid., II. 128. Unam waram, & 2 Cotlandas cum dominio & prato.
1316. Patent 9 Edw. II. (in Blount, Law Dict., s.v.), De una Cothlanda terræ in Wathford.
1399. in Kennett, Par. Antiq., II. 189. Dimidia acra jacet ibidem inter cotland quam Johannes Goldering tenet ex una parte, et cotland quam Thomas Webbe tenet ex altera.
1866. Rogers, Agric. & Prices, I. iv. 76. Three [acres] of cotland with a messuage.
