croft

IPA: krˈɔft

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.
An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.
A cave or cavern.
(archaic) A carafe.
A surname from Middle English, from the common noun croft, and from places named Croft.
A village and civil parish in Warrington borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6393).
A village and civil parish in Blaby district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP5195).
A village and civil parish in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF5061).
An unincorporated community in Pratt County, Kansas, United States.

(intransitive) To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.
(transitive, archaic) To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.

Examples of "croft" in Sentences

Foonf (UID#) on November 12th, 2009 at 2: 00 pm ps3 laura croft cameltoe ftw.
Our house and its three fields used to be a croft, supporting a numerous family.
"croft" i.e. a very small holding of land, where he raised sheep and grew potatoes.
There was a kind of croft on one hillside, and from a hut the smoke of breakfast was beginning to curl.
The longest time he spent away from the croft was the six years he spent serving his country in the last war.
I heard the door of our croft scrape shut across the summer warmed flagstones, then one of the men offer my mother a ride on his mount.
Turner a freehold tenement in Greenhill Street, with garden and croft, which is not mentioned in any of his later transactions, and from Edward
My bet is you were connected to a call handling centre somewhere miles away, spoke to someone who had to ask what a croft was and weren’t visited because it was too far away from the nearest ‘big’ town and they couldn’t lose the manpower for half a day to reach you.