单词 | crofter |
释义 | croftern.1 One who rents and cultivates a croft or small holding; esp. in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, one of the joint tenants of a divided farm (who often combines the tillage of a small croft with fishing or other vocation). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > crofter crofter1799 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [noun] > one holding by type of farm tenure racker1688 métayer1776 crofter1799 1799 Marshall in J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 353 Every man, whether farmer, crafter, cotter or villager. 1811 G. S. Keith Agric. Surv. Aberdeen Prel. Obs. 14 There cannot be..too few large crofters, who hold their grounds of the farmers. 1862 J. Skelton Nugæ Criticæ i. 34 Flat, dreary, up~lying moors, with the thatched cottage of the crofter, and his scanty patch of cultivation. 1880 Macmillan's Mag. No. 245. 410 The crofter with his few acres well cultivated, produces a larger yield per acre than the large farmer. Derivatives ˈcrofterdom n. Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1873 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 100/2 One dead level of crofterdom. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020). croftern.2 One who crofts or bleaches linen on the grass. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitener > [noun] > bleaching agent > bleacher pleykstare1440 whitster1440 whitener1540 bleacher1550 bleaker1611 crofter1772 1772 Manchester Directory 53 Alphabetical list of the Crofters or Whitsters. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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