crofting en · NOUN
Etymology
From croft + -ing.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A form of land tenure and small-scale food production, unique to the Highlands and islands of Scotland, in which individual crofts are established on the better land while a large area of poor-quality hill ground is shared by all the crofters of the township for grazing.
Her father was a fisherman, and her family fed itself by crofting--age-old, small-plot, subsistence farming—living in a modest gray pebble-dash house, surrounded by a landscape of properties local historians and genealogists characterized with terms like “human wretchedness” and “indescribably filthy.”
2017, Cristiana Couceiro, “The Mystery of Mary Trump”, in Politico:
- (countable, uncountable) The process of exposing linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process of bleaching.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| croftings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |