Definition of "croft" []

• Chiefly British A small enclosed field or pasture near a house. (noun)
• Chiefly British A small farm, especially a tenant farm. (noun)

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• "Turner a freehold tenement in Greenhill Street, with garden and croft, which is not mentioned in any of his later transactions, and from Edward"
• "The longest time he spent away from the croft was the six years he spent serving his country in the last war."
• "There was a kind of croft on one hillside, and from a hut the smoke of breakfast was beginning to curl."