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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun
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▪ After a brief stop at Gairlochy, I decide to make straight for Fiona's croft.
▪ Both reflect Mills's own remarkable croft for the study of national societies.
▪ I quicken my step, keeping my eyes fixed ahead, hoping for a sign of life about the croft.
▪ Reformed systems of direct support, aimed in particular at helping family farms and crofts.
▪ Some 15,000 crofts, small family farm units that offer marginal incomes and mainly part-time employment, have survived.
▪ The croft cottage was small, only two rooms, but she took pride in her work.
▪ They had learned that it was easier to survive on the croft than in the bread line.
▪ This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Carafe \Ca*rafe"\, n. [F.] A glass water bottle for the table or toilet; -- called also croft.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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Old English croft "enclosed field, small field," of unknown etymology. Crofter is 1799, originally Scottish.

Wiktionary
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n. 1 A fenced piece of land, especially in Scotland, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production and usually with a crofter's dwelling thereon. 2 (context archaic English) A carafe.

WordNet
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n. a small farm worked by a crofter

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Croft

Croft may refer to:

  • Croft (land), an area of land with a crofter's dwelling, used for crofting (small-scale food production).
  • Bleachfield, an open space used for the bleaching of fabric, sometimes called crofts.

Locations in the United Kingdom:

  • Croft, Cheshire, in the Borough of Warrington
  • Croft, Leicestershire
  • Croft, Lincolnshire
  • Croft, Pembrokeshire
  • Croft, Herefordshire
  • Croft Castle, Herefordshire
  • Croft-on-Tees, North Yorkshire
  • Crofton town, originally called "Croft-town'', the town standing upon the Crofts

Locations in the United States:

  • Croft, California
  • Croft, Kansas

For people named Croft, see Croft (surname).

Other uses:

  • Croft Circuit, a motor racing circuit in northeast England located Darlington
Croft (land)

A croft is a fenced or enclosed area of land, usually small and arable with a crofter's dwelling thereon. A crofter is one who has tenure and use of the land, typically as a tenant farmer, especially in rural areas.

Croft (surname)

Croft is a surname; notable people with this surname include:

  • Annabel Croft, British tennis player
  • Chancy Croft (born 1937), American politician, father of Eric Croft
  • Colin Croft, Guyanese cricketer
  • Darren Croft, Australian ice hockey player
  • David Croft (TV producer), British TV sitcom writer
  • Douglas Croft, American actor
  • Eric Croft (born 1964), American politician, son of Chancy Croft
  • Gary Croft, English footballer
  • Henry Croft, Australian-Canadian businessman
  • Herbert Croft (disambiguation), several people
  • Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft
  • James Croft, Lord Deputy of Ireland in the sixteenth century
  • June Croft, British freestyle swimmer
  • Lara Croft, fictional protagonist of the Tomb Raider series
  • Lee Croft, English footballer
  • Lee Croft (American football) (1898–?), American NFL guard
  • Mary Jane Croft, American actress
  • Paddy Croft, actress
  • Peta-Kaye Croft, Australian politician
  • Richard Croft (tenor), American operatic tenor
  • Robert Croft, Welsh cricketer
  • Robert Croft (diver), record-setting American US Navy diver (retired)
  • Steven Croft (bishop), Bishop of Sheffield
  • Steven Croft (cricketer), English cricketer
  • William Croft, English composer
  • William Croft (linguist), American linguist

Usage examples of "croft".

The existence of the book opened a gaping hole in a case Croft thought he had closed for all time.

If the book had survived the fire, then Croft had to face another possibility: Its owner, Egan Graves, might have also escaped and survived.

Rottweiler, Croft would have said simply that he was one of those people who got along well with dogs.

The light and energy of a new day filled the air and Croft and the dog drank in the essence of both as they covered the ground toward the distant point of land at the end of the beach.

Uneasily she remembered her earlier image of meeting Croft in a darkened bedroom.

She had never talked about this particular part of her past with anyone, but now she wanted Croft to understand what had happened.

She had lost all self-consciousness and now just wanted to know everything she could about Croft Falconer.

It was disconcerting and she was very much afraid Croft had been right when he claimed that this kind of thing might have something in common with violence.

It should have been possible to view Croft as she would an exotic piece of arc Compelling, tantalizing, intriguing, but definitely out of reach in terms of price.

She felt driven to learn as much as possible about Croft, and his reluctance to talk about himself only increased her need to learn his secrets.

A tiny, warning shiver went through Mercy as she wondered if perhaps Croft were equally knowledgeable about the actual practice of violence.

She did not want to believe Croft had firsthand experience of his subject.

She seriously questioned whether anyone could force a discussion on Croft Falconer.

Her thoughts drifted from Croft to the valuable book that was temporarily housed in her kitchen cupboard.

Mercy recalled Croft holding the book in his powerful, sensitive hands, turning the old pages with great care.