metonymic occupational name for a maker of chain-mail,
from an Anglo-Norman French diminutive of Old French cot(t)e
‘coat of mail’ (see Cott).metonymic occupational name for
a cutler, from Old French co(u)tel, co(u)teau ‘knife’
(Late Latin cultellus, a diminutive of culter
‘plowshare’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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