Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small enclosed field or pasture near a house.
- noun A small farm, especially a tenant farm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bleach (linen) after bucking or soaking in an alkaline dye, by exposing to the sun and air.
- noun A small piece of inclosed ground used for pasture, tillage, or other purposes; any small tract of land; a very small farm: applied especially to the small farms on the western coast and islands of Scotland.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
fenced piece ofland , especially inScotland , usually small andarable and used for small-scale food production and usually with acrofter 'sdwelling thereon. - noun archaic A
carafe .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small farm worked by a crofter
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Turner a freehold tenement in Greenhill Street, with garden and croft, which is not mentioned in any of his later transactions, and from Edward
Shakespeare's Family 1885
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The longest time he spent away from the croft was the six years he spent serving his country in the last war.
unknown title 2009
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The longest time he spent away from the croft was the six years he spent serving his country in the last war.
unknown title 2009
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There was a kind of croft on one hillside, and from a hut the smoke of breakfast was beginning to curl.
Greenmantle 2005
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My bet is you were connected to a call handling centre somewhere miles away, spoke to someone who had to ask what a croft was and weren’t visited because it was too far away from the nearest ‘big’ town and they couldn’t lose the manpower for half a day to reach you.
The Revolving Door System. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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There was a kind of croft on one hillside, and from a hut the smoke of breakfast was beginning to curl.
Greenmantle John Buchan 1907
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"croft" i.e. a very small holding of land, where he raised sheep and grew potatoes.
gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" 2008
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Our house and its three fields used to be a croft, supporting a numerous family.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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I heard the door of our croft scrape shut across the summer warmed flagstones, then one of the men offer my mother a ride on his mount.
The premature ending of Annie MacLeod Gill Hoffs 2011
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Foonf (UID#) on November 12th, 2009 at 2: 00 pm ps3 laura croft cameltoe ftw.
dailyword commented on the word croft
This word was used in "The Three Lives Of Thomasina" movie.
August 28, 2012