English : occupational name for a maker of knives, from an agent
derivative of Middle English, Old French co(u)tel,
co(u)teau ‘knife’, Late Latin cultellus, a diminutive of
culter ‘plowshare’. Compare Cottle.
Americanized spelling of German Kottler or Kattler,
which is of uncertain origin.
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