单词 | croft |
释义 | croft/krɒft![]() British noun 1A small rented farm, especially one in Scotland, comprising a plot of arable land attached to a house and with a right of pasturage held in common with other such farms.He revolutionised farming in Scotland in the 18th century, by compiling his famous Statistical Account of Scotland - a detailed survey of every farm and croft in the land....
1.1An enclosed field used for tillage or pasture, typically attached to a house and worked by the occupier.Here is the second cluster of huts, wattle fences enclosing neat crofts of fowl houses and kitchen-gardens blown with harvest....
verb [with object] Farm (land) as a croft or crofts: the land was crofted at one time OriginOld English: of unknown origin. Rhymes |
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