different between cottery vs cotters

English

cottery (comparative more cottery, superlative most cottery)

(dialect, rare) Tangled (of hair).
- 1993, Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door, Penguin 2014 (The Regeneration Trilogy), p. 456:
  Prior had looked across the heaving backs and seen a boy, about his own age, standing pressed back against the wall, his white, still face half hidden by a mass of cottery black hair.

cotters

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