croft
1a small farm, especially one worked by a tenant.
a small plot of ground adjacent to a house and used as a kitchen garden, to pasture one or two cows, etc.; a garden large enough to feed a family or have commercial value.
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a small, portable filing cabinet of table height, having drop leaves for use as a table.
Origin of croft
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How to use croft in a sentence
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The Balfours, I take it, were plainly Celts; their name shows it—the “cold croft,” it means; so does their country.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) | Robert Louis StevensonWho would grub out his life in the same croft, when he has free-warren of all fields between this and Rhine?
The Saint's Tragedy | Charles Kingsleycroft Church is a half-brown, half-grey old building of mixed materials and of most evident age.
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British Dictionary definitions for croft
/ (krɒft) /
a small enclosed plot of land, adjoining a house, worked by the occupier and his family, esp in Scotland
Lancashire dialect a patch of wasteland, formerly one used for bleaching fabric in the sun
Origin of croft
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