Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. Croftland.
- noun (Textile Manuf.) Exposing linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process of bleaching.
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- noun A form of
land tenure andsmall-scale food production , unique to theHighlands andislands ofScotland , in which individualcrofts are established on the better land while a large area of poor-qualityhill ground is shared by all thecrofters of thetownship forgrazing . - noun The process of exposing
linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process ofbleaching .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This process came to be called crofting, after the Scottish word for a small meadow (croft).
Covenant Zone 2010
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I think 'crofting' comes naturally to creative people .....
gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" 2008
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"crofting" as a metaphor for the new world of work?
gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" 2008
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We toured it to places few shows had ever gone to – let alone a show about crofting and oil rigs.
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Soon the bull, duty done, will be off to his winter quarters while most of the others will be moved on to the machair, where they will play their part in the crofting cycle which maintains one of Britain's rarest ecosystems.
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There are similarities to Scottish crofting townships – smallholdings with rough pastures, old fences in need of repair, livestock grazing by the shore, odd bits of disused machinery, and a sense of life reduced to simple necessities.
South Africa beyond the World Cup: hiking in the wild east Gavin Bell 2010
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Recent suggestions from the Chartered Management Institute that workers need to hone their transferable skills to survive the recession are wasted on Chalmers, who has what's referred to in these parts as a crofting career.
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And apropos of nothing much, other than not skipping meals and crofting making a lot of sense for musicians, Sweet Soul Cooking with Shonna Tucker.
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There are also due to be Bills on the building of the new Forth Road Bridge, crofting and housing.
SNP sets out legislative plan Jeff 2009
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Regarding distilleries, if crofting communities and islands can own their own land, why can't distilleries?
T in the Dark Jeff 2009
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