EGAVE

croft

About 0.77 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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.
  2. verb To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.
  3. verb To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.
  4. noun An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.
  5. noun A cave or cavern.
  6. noun A carafe.

Similar words

cooke murray goodman's croft cruive ploughgate croplands conacre parrock cropfield cropland

Often followed by

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Word family

crofter crofters crofts

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