What is "crofters"

Usage examples of "crofters".

Penderleigh ledgers, and perhaps visit some of our crofters to get the feel of life here.

The visit to the crofters had had to be postponed, for the duke discovered very quickly that there was much for him to learn about the relative merits of sheep and crops.

She looked out to sea and saw some crofters in a barely seaworthy little boat, heaving their tattered nets over the side into the water.

The duke and others tried to turn the crofters into fishermen, but the fishing industry deteriorated.

The Clearances emptied these high lands of some fifteen thousand people, most of them crofters, or tenant farmers, whose ancestors had lived here for generations.

But our crofters have not the tools nor the experience to sow the land.

Now, if you think it worthwhile, I should like to spend the afternoon visiting the crofters and making out a list of repairs for the castle.

Whilst Bertrand and I were visiting some of the crofters, I spotted a wide flat meadow that will be perfect for a gallop.

You are looking toward the hills where displaced crofters also traveled, and over those mountains, only ninety miles away, lies the western rim of Scotland.

Can the golfers and the crofters whose animals graze on the course find a way to coexist peacefully?

But the golfers formed a close relationship with the crofters in the area, and the sheep and the course in the big hills of Durness coexist peacefully.

I was brought up in the Highlands among the crofters in their worst days.

This was the landscape of the Highland Clearances, that brutal depopulation of the countryside where crofters had been driven off their land by rich landowners eager to make the easier money that came with rearing Cheviot sheep.