Croft

/kɹɒft/ · noun

Meaning

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..

Definitions by Sense

1. 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.
2. (intransitive) To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.
3. (transitive, archaic) To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.
4. An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.
5. A cave or cavern.
6. (archaic) A carafe.

Example Sentences

...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...

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

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• crofts
• crofting
• crofted

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