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croft
CEFRB2
/kɹɒft/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A small farm or area of farmland, especially in Scotland.
- 02
noun
Extra detailTo do agricultural work on one or more crofts.
Examples
Mr Croft was comfortable with his cushy sinecure.
...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...
At a glance
Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 1
- Synonyms
- 1
Also pronounced
- /kɹɔf/
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsTo place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.
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.
An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.
More examples
In contextHedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft / The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; / And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
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Origin
noun
The noun is derived from Middle English croft, crofft, croffte, croofte, crofte (“croft”), from Old English croft (“enclosed field”); further etymology uncertain, 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 Middle Dutch kroft, krocht, crocht (“high and dry land; a field on the downs”), Middle Low German kroch (“enclosed piece of farmland or pasture”), Scots croft, craft (“croft”). The verb is derived from the noun.