Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cottage"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Cottage
(1.) A booth in a vineyard (Isa. 1:8); a temporary shed covered
with leaves or straw to shelter the watchman that kept the
garden. These were slight fabrics, and were removed when no
longer needed, or were left to be blown down in winter (Job
27:18).
(2.) A lodging-place (rendered "lodge" in Isa. 1:8); a
slighter structure than the "booth," as the cucumber patch is
more temporary than a vineyard (Isa. 24:20). It denotes a frail
structure of boughs supported on a few poles, which is still in
use in the East, or a hammock suspended between trees, in which
the watchman was accustomed to sleep during summer.
(3.) In Zeph. 2:6 it is the rendering of the Hebrew _keroth_,
which some suppose to denote rather "pits" (R.V. marg., "caves")
or "wells of water," such as shepherds would sink.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cottage \Cot"tage\ (k?t"t?j; 48), n. [From {Cot} a cottage.]
A small house; a cot; a hut.
Note: The term was formerly limited to a habitation for the
poor, but is now applied to any small tasteful
dwelling; and at places of summer resort, to any
residence or lodging house of rustic architecture,
irrespective of size.
{Cottage allotment}. See under {Alloment}. [Eng.]
{Cottage cheese}, the thick part of clabbered milk strained,
salted, and pressed into a ball.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cottage
n : a small house with a single story [syn: {bungalow}]
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