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CROFT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does croft mean?
• CROFT (noun)
The noun CROFT has 1 sense:
1. a small farm worked by a crofter
Familiarity information: CROFT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small farm worked by a crofter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("croft" is a kind of...):
farm (workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
Context examples
Yesterday morning they were at Cowes, and we saw the smoke from the burning crofts.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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