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单词 croft
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(krɒft, US krɔːft)
Word forms: plural crofts
countable noun
In Scotland, a croft is a small piece of land which is owned and farmed by one family and which provides them with food.
...a remote croft near Loch Nevis.

croft in British English

(krɒft)
noun British
1. 
a small enclosed plot of land, adjoining a house, worked by the occupier and his or her family, esp in Scotland
2.  Lancashire dialect
a patch of wasteland, formerly one used for bleaching fabric in the sun
Word origin
Old English croft; related to Middle Dutch krocht hill, field, Old English creopan to creep

croft in American English

(krɔft)
noun British
1. 
a small, enclosed field
2. 
a small farm, esp. one worked by a renter
Derived forms
crofter (ˈcrofter)
noun
Word origin
ME < OE, akin to MDu krocht, hill, field among dunes < Gmc *krufta, lit., that which bends < IE base *ger-: see cradle

Examples of 'croft' in a sentence
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It was the day Ruth had seen him leaning on a rock by the croft where he had been born.
Barbara Erskine SANDS OF TIME (2003)
His motherless sons: for them the croft, for them the boat, for them his every waking thought.
Maclean, Alistair THE LONELY SEA (2003)
So why had the men spent the night in an abandoned croft, rather than organizing their trip more prudently?
Julian May IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE (2003)

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