noun
croft
KRAWFT/krɔːft/
A small farm or enclosed farming plot, often rented in Scotland.
The small croft includes a stone cottage and an enclosed cultivated field.
Etymology
Old English croft meant a small or enclosed field, the core idea retained in the Scottish small-farm sense. Its deeper origin is unknown.
In context
because of the requirement in their payment region to keep livestock, they could not get basic payment support to create the Highland’s first plant-protein croft.
More examples
- They rent a croft on a Scottish island.
- A stone wall surrounds the croft.
- The neighboring crofts each have a small vegetable garden.
Forms
croft · crofts
crofter noun — A person who rents or works a croft.