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Definition of Crofter
1. Noun. An owner or tenant of a small farm in Great Britain.
Definition of Crofter
1. n. One who rents and tills a small farm or holding; as, the crofters of Scotland.
Definition of Crofter
1. Noun. One who has the tenure of a croft, usually also the occupant and user. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crofter
1. a tenant farmer [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crofter
Literary usage of Crofter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"Yet hardly a voice is raised in their favour from the ranks of those who have
hitherto posed as the crofter's friends—indeed his only friends! ..."
2. Y Cymmrodor by Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (1890)
"I. THE crofter SYSTEM OF THE WESTERN ISLES OP SCOTLAND. I RAVE to begin by making
an apology. The title of the Paper I am about to read was announced in the ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1885)
"THE crofter PROBLEM. condition of the Scotch crofters has been thrice the subject
of official investigation within the last half-century, but it remains ..."
4. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1892)
"... Duke of Argyll on the crofter Districts—Home Rule omitted from a Liberal
Programme—Letters by Mr. Chamberlain and Sir W. Harcourt—The Baccarat ..."
5. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1890)
"J.) on the crofter Question, 19 ; 4 / - _ ,,n Free Education, 11 a 8 Л on Mr.
Gladstone and the Agricultural Labourers, 15m II« and Sir W. Harcourt, ..."
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