Definition of "croft"

croft¹

/kɹɒft/

noun
plural crofts
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.
  Quotations
  ...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...
  1530: Sir John Campbell of Glenurchy (in a lease to his "weil belouit" servant John M'Conoquhy V'Gregour)
  Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft / The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; / And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
  1819 September 19, John Keats, “To Autumn”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, stanza 3, page 139
verb
third-person singular simple present crofts, present participle crofting, simple past and past participle crofted
1. (intransitive) To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.
2. (transitive, archaic) To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.

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