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Definition of Crofting
1. n. Croftland.
Definition of Crofting
1. Noun. 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. ¹
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Definition of Crofting
1. the running of a small farm [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crofting
Literary usage of Crofting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"... they met in angles equal to the angle contained by the edges of the knives ¡
and where they met and joined, they ended, without crofting one another. ..."
2. A Picturesque Guide to Bath, Bristol Hot-wells, the River Avon, and the by Julius Ibbetson, John Hassell, John Laporte (1793)
"... painter turns with abhorrence from fuch a jargon of crofting lines, till
recollecting that a wood in the ..."
3. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1889)
"The crofting township of tue Highlands is a partial survival of a system of land-
tenure once common to the whole of Scotland and prevalent in other ..."
4. Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine, and Annals of Philosophy. (1826)
"There are, strictly speaking, two modes of crofting : the goods are artificially
watered from troughs or ... The latter is called dry crofting. 5. Boiling. ..."
5. The Celtic Magazine by Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain (1878)
"The old crofting population will emigrate, or migrate when education and other
... By this method the most thrifty and industrious of the- crofting ..."
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