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- noun Plural form of
crofter .
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That means we've taken a lot of land somewhere north, that you can shoot over -- that is, you needn't be afraid of hitting a house, or a tree, or a man anywhere; and we've got a strip more of the same sort on the seashore somewhere off here, occupied only by some gay galoots called crofters, and you can raise
A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories Bret Harte 1869
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The book is especially noteworthy for its portrait of changing relations between crofters or tenant farmers and their English laird (then, a glorified landlord who owned the island) long before the establishment of a Scottish Parliament.
Great Books About Scotland — A St. Andrew’s Day Celebration « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009
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Tessa Hadley was an unlikely convert to Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon's lyrical elegy to the world of Scottish crofters
Book reviews roundup 2011
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The fate of the crofters of Scotland drove Scottish nationalism.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Genetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews 2010
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The Northumbrian duo are mighty singers, their music transforming anything it touches – whether that be traditional ballad, their own tune, or comparatively modern cover version – into something that sounds like it's been sung for generations by families of windblown crofters.
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The book is especially noteworthy for its portrait of changing relations between crofters or tenant farmers and their English laird (then, a glorified landlord who owned the island) long before the establishment of a Scottish Parliament.
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Ruined croft houses, remains of dry stone dykes marking lost fields, now reclaimed by ferns and gorse and whin and heather, a brighter shade of green on the hillsides showing where crofters had fertilized and cultivated the land, now they were empty, except for the sheep.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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A general shuffling and rearranging and the next case, a boundary dispute between crofters, a dispute that had been simmering for forty-seven years, now started.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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The fate of the crofters of Scotland drove Scottish nationalism.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Genetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews 2010
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With a woman, even vaguely, in charge, Labour are discovering new territory in the way the Eskimos did when, in the 17th century, they discovered the Outer Hebrides, (to the bemusement of local crofters).
A Giant Leap For Personkind ? Newmania 2008
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