Definition of Crofters

1. Noun. (plural of crofter) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crofters

1. crofter [n] - See also: crofter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crofters

croconic
croconic acid
crocose
crocosmia
crocosmias
crocotta
crocottas
crocs
crocus
crocuses
crocuslike
crocuta
crocutas
croft
crofter
crofters (current term)
crofting
croftings
croftland
croftlands
crofts
crog
crogged
crogging
crogs
crohn's colitis
crohn's enteris
crohn's enterocolitis
crohn's ileocolitis
crohn disease

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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