croft

¹

[ krawft, kroft ]

noun

, British.

1. a small farm, especially one worked by a tenant.
2. a small plot of ground adjacent to a house and used as a kitchen garden, to pasture one or two cows, etc.; a garden large enough to feed a family or have commercial value.

croft

²

[ krawft, kroft ]

noun

1. a small, portable filing cabinet of table height, having drop leaves for use as a table.

croft

/ krɒft /

noun

1. a small enclosed plot of land, adjoining a house, worked by the occupier and his family, esp in Scotland
2. dialect.
   a patch of wasteland, formerly one used for bleaching fabric in the sun

Word History and Origins

Origin of croft¹

before 1000; Middle English, Old English: small field

Origin of croft²

Named after the Reverend Sir Herbert Croft (1757–1816), lexicologist, its inventor

Word History and Origins

Origin of croft¹

Old English croft; related to Middle Dutch krocht hill, field, Old English creopan to creep

Example Sentences

Many are responding by saying all this is as absurd as men demanding Lara Croft be suddenly replaced by a male.

From The Daily Beast

Eighty years after its publication, the eipc saga of croft farmers and their struggles is still selling steadily.

From The Daily Beast

And the sensual vocal interplay between Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim is still the best in the game.

From The Daily Beast

It happened a decade ago, when she was in Cambodia shooting the action movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

From The Daily Beast

Sir Richard Croft, a fashionable accoucheur of that time, was in attendance upon her with other physicians.

From Project Gutenberg

The Balfours, I take it, were plainly Celts; their name shows it—the “cold croft,” it means; so does their country.

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Who would grub out his life in the same croft, when he has free-warren of all fields between this and Rhine?

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Croft Church is a half-brown, half-grey old building of mixed materials and of most evident age.

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In this church Bishop Burnet may have listened to his first sermon, for it was at Croft that he was born.

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