noun British.
- a 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.
noun
- a small, portable filing cabinet of table height, having drop leaves for use as a table.
noun British
- 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
Old English croft “enclosed field, small field,” of unknown etymology. Crofter is 1799, originally Scottish.