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> Why assume cottars don't have cattle? They don't have enough to
> provide a full ox team but that's going to require a herd of at
> least twenty, possibly thirty. Then there are sheep, pigs and
> other livestock. Probably the definition of a stickpicker is
> someone who has no livestock at all.
I think the actual legal definition of a cotter is someone who doesn't
have any cattle. Someone who does is a carl. Someone with a team is
doing very well for a carl.
Jeff