croft
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noun- 1.
An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters.
...to haue set and for malis and service...the four markland of Kincrakin...with the croft of Polgreyich and the croft that Ewin M'Ewin was wount to haue...
Đồng nghĩa: quillet
- 2.
(archaic)An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.
- 3.
(archaic)A cave or cavern.
- 4.
(archaic)A carafe.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.
- 2.
(archaic, transitive)To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.
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The noun is derived from Middle English croft, crofft, croffte, croofte, crofte (croft), from Old English croft (enclosed field); further etymology, but possibly from Proto-Germanic *kruftaz (a hill; a curve), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (to bend; arch, crook, curve); see also crop. The English word is cognate with kroft, krocht, crocht (high and dry land;