Croft

Quick meaning: Croft is a noun meaning (intransitive) To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.

Meaning

(intransitive) To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, archaic) To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.
2. An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.
3. A cave or cavern.
4. An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters.
5. (archaic) A carafe.

Example Sentences

Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft / The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; / And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

...to haue set and for malis and service...the four markland of Kincrakin...with the croft of Polgreyich and the croft that Ewin M'Ewin was wount to haue.

Word Forms

• crofts
• crofting
• crofted

Synonyms for croft

Depending on context, synonyms include quillet.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include murray, cruive, ploughgate, conacre, parrock, cropfield.

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