croft








noun British.

  1. a small farm, especially one worked by a tenant.
  2. 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.

noun

  1. a small, portable filing cabinet of table height, having drop leaves for use as a table.

noun British

  1. a small enclosed plot of land, adjoining a house, worked by the occupier and his family, esp in Scotland
  2. Lancashire dialect a patch of wasteland, formerly one used for bleaching fabric in the sun
n.

Old English croft “enclosed field, small field,” of unknown etymology. Crofter is 1799, originally Scottish.

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