Definition of "crofter" [croft•er]

• Chiefly British One who rents and cultivates a croft; a tenant farmer. (noun)

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• "There is, according to the old joke, no equivalent in Gaelic to the word mañana - nothing, as the crofter is supposed to have said to the tourist, "expressing quite that degree of urgency"."
• "There was a house within sight, one of those hovels in which still the Highland shepherd or crofter is content to live."
• "The "never had it so good" prime minister liked to portray himself as the great - great grandson of a "crofter" (actually a conventional farmer) on the isle of Arran in the shipping lanes of the Firth of Clyde."