Word Finder - crofts

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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

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To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.

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

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An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.

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A cave or cavern.

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A carafe.

Although there are some good arable farms in favoured districts, the vast majority of holdings are small crofts occupied mostly by peasants who combine fishing with farming.

The size of the crofts varies greatly.

Until the Restoration he was placed under the care, first of Lord Crofts, by whose name he was known, and then of the queen-dowager, receiving his education to the age of nine from Roman Catholics, but thenceforward from Protestant tutors.

Amending statutes of succeeding years added to the commissioners' powers of fixing fair rents and cancelling arrears, the power of enlarging crofts and common grazings.

The landowners found thousands of the crofts on which their villeins had been wont to dwell vacant, and could not fill them with new tenants.

Crofts added a fourth very shortly after when the keeper made another blooper, dropping a catch at the marksman's feet.

Despite promising signs in the Gully, the nearby crofts were not exactly brimming with migrants.

He also carried on business as a tallow chandler, his premises extending from High street to the High House Inn in the Crofts.

In some cases even the newly created crofts were cleared.

Many families in Ireland lived on small crofts growing their own food, largely at subsistence level.

Some ridge and furrow appears to occupy old crofts.

The Bill will allow new crofts to be created in or next to existing woodlands on the national forest estate.

Creating woodland crofts Communities wishing to create woodland crofts would bid to buy national forest land under the National Forest Land Scheme.

There is an old path (not on my map) for 2 km to lush alluvial pastures where two stone crofts once stood.

Many of our crofts have traditional rights to collect seaweed from the shore.

Sample stones taken from these crofts will be incorporated in the floor of the dry stane dyking area near the church.