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croft

noun
/kɹɒft/UK/kɹɔf//kɹɔft/US/kɹɑft/CA

Etymology

From Middle English croft, crofte, croufte, crufte (“crypt; vault”), from Old English cruft, from Latin crupta, crypta (“crypt; vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτή (kruptḗ), feminine form of κρῠπτός (krŭptós, “concealed, hidden; secret”), from κρύπτω (krúptō, “to conceal, hide; to obscure”) (further etymology unknown) + -ος (-os). The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch croft, crocht, crochte, crogt, cruft, crufte (modern Dutch krocht (“underground cavity, cave; underground vault, crypt”)), Middle Low German krucht, kruft (“crypt”), Old High German cruft (Middle High German kruft (“cave; crypt”)). Doublet of grotto and crypt.

  1. derived from *grewb-✻ — “to bend; arch, crook, curve”
  2. inherited from *kruftaz✻ — “a hill; a curve”
  3. inherited from croft — “enclosed field”
  4. inherited from croft

Definitions

  1. An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food…

    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.

    • ...to haue set and for malis and service...the four markland of Kincrakin...with the croft of Polgreyich and the croft that Ewin M'Ewin was wount to haue...
    • Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft / The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; / And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

  2. To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.

  3. To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. An underground chamber

      An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.

    2. A cave or cavern.

    3. A carafe.

    4. A surname from Middle English, from the common noun croft, and from places named Croft.

    5. A place in England

      A place in England:

    6. An unincorporated community in Pratt County, Kansas, United States.

The neighborhood

Derived

crofter, crofting, undercroft

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA