Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for COD'GER
CO-DE'I-NA, or CO-DE'IACOD'I-CIL
COD'GER, n. [Sp. coger, to catch. Chalmers. Hence he defines the word by miser. But the primary sense is by no means obvious. I take it to be a corruption of cottager, Norm. cotier.]
A rustic; a clown; a miserly man.
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