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Crofter1. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Crofter1 Also Sc. crafter. [f. CROFT sb.1 + -ER1.] In Gael. croitear, from Eng.] One who rents and cultivates a croft or small holding; esp. in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, one of the joint tenants of a divided farm (who often combines the tillage of a small croft with fishing or other vocation).

1 1799.  Marshall, in J. Robertson, Agric. Perth, 353. Every man, whether farmer, crafter, cotter or villager, manufactures and fetches home his own peats.

2 1811.  G. S. Keith, Agric. Surv. Aberd., Prel. Obs. 14. There cannot be … too few large crofters, who hold their grounds of the farmers.

3 1862.  ‘Shirley’ (J. Skelton), Nugæ Crit., i. 34. Flat, dreary, uplying moors, with the thatched cottage of the crofter, and his scanty patch of cultivation.

4 1880.  Macm. Mag., No. 245. 410/2. The crofter with his few acres well cultivated, produces a larger yield per acre than the large farmer.

5   attrib.  1848.  3rd Rep. Relief of Destit. Highlands, 68. The state and condition of the Crofter population of Sutherland Proper.

6   Hence Crofterdom nonce-wd.

7 1873.  Blackw. Mag., July, 100/2. One dead level of crofterdom.

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