What is the meaning of Croft?

An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters.

To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.

To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.

An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.

A cave or cavern.

A carafe.

croft (small field)

enclosure, courtyard

Pokorny, Julius (1959) “385-90”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 385-90

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