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Definition of Crofters
1. crofter [n] - See also: crofter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crofters
Literary usage of Crofters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Celtic Magazine by Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain (1886)
"Give us more land, and restore to us the land robbed from our forefathers under
cover of Landlord-made laws," has been the demand of the crofters ever since ..."
2. The Nineteenth Century (1885)
"THE HIGHLAND crofters: A VINDICATION OF THE REPORT OF THE ... the Duke of Argyll
has produced an indictment against the Report of the crofters' Commission. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1889)
"TUB crofters Act of 1886 introduced principles hitherto unheard of in Great Britain.
The Commission appointed to administer that Act have been steadily at ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"The crofters, compelled to give up large tracts of mountain common pasture, and
their email holdings in the straths and glens lower on the mountains, ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"The crofters are also, for the most part, fishermen, and a good deal was done,
though not so much as wisely might have been, to facilitate their labors in ..."
6. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1885)
"This display of force preserved order ; and the marines were subsequently used
to support the police in apprehending crofters in Skye and the Lews, ..."
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