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Webster 1913 Edition

Croft

Croft

(krŏft; 115)
,
Noun.
[AS.
croft
; akin to D.
kroft
hillock; cf. Gael.
croit
hump, croft.]
A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm.
A few small
crofts
of stone-encumbered ground.
Wordsworth.

Webster 1828 Edition

Croft

CROFT

,
Noun.
[L., Gr., to conceal.] A little close adjoining or near to a dwelling house, and used for pasture, tillage or other purposes.

Definition 2024

Croft

Croft

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Croft

  1. A surname​, from the common noun croft, and from places named Croft.

croft

croft

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English

Noun

croft ‎(plural crofts)

  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.
    • 1819, Keats, To Autumn:
      Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
      The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
  2. (archaic) A carafe.

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From Middle English croft, from Old English croft ‎(“a small enclosed field; croft”), from Proto-Germanic *kruftaz ‎(“a hill; curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- ‎(“to bend; crook; curve; arch”). Cognate with Scots croft, craft ‎(“croft”), Middle Dutch kroft, krocht, crocht ‎(“high and dry land; a field on the downs”), Middle Low German kroch ‎(“enclosed piece of farmland or pasture”).

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