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单词 crofter
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croftern.1

/ˈkrɒftə/
Forms: Also Scottish crafter.
Etymology: < croft n.1 + -er suffix1. In Gaelic croitear, < English.
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).
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > crofter
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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
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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.
attributive.1848 3rd Rep. Relief of Destit. Highlands 68 The state and condition of the Crofter population of Sutherland Proper.

Derivatives

ˈcrofterdom n. Apparently an isolated use.
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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

Etymology: < croft v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcrofter.
One who crofts or bleaches linen on the grass.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitener > [noun] > bleaching agent > bleacher
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whitster1440
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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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