croft — English Dictionary

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.

   Synonyms

   quillet

   Examples

   ...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...

   Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft / The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; / And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

Verb

1. To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.

   Usage

   • Intransitive

2. To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Transitive

Noun

1. An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.

   Usage

   • Archaic

2. A cave or cavern.

   Usage

   • Archaic

Noun

1. A carafe.

   Usage

   • Archaic

Noun

1. a small farm worked by a crofter

   Broader terms

   farm