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How to pronounce crofter in English?

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Type of small farmer

Examples of crofter

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Yes, The Book Of Secrets illuminates an historical arc of crofter experience.
From the nzherald.co.nz
McPhee settled down in a cottage sublet from a crofter named Donald Gibbie to watch and listen.
From the time.com
A croft is enclosed land tended by a farmer known as a crofter.
From the boston.com
Crofter Dave Wheeler uses a rural broadband service from the remote Fair Isle in the Shetlands.
From the guardian.co.uk
I have been unable to find out what you did for a living but almost certainly you were a crofter-fisherman.
From the guardian.co.uk
Mind you, Supermac's grandad was a crofter.
From the guardian.co.uk
Boreray has only one crofter now.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Kevin Kennedy, a crofter on the island of Lewis, said farmers in the Hebrides get far lower prices for their animals than they would on the mainland.
From the upi.com
Someone had shot an ancient crofter with a shotgun and suspicion fell on assorted members of her family but they were all as bleak and grey as the rocky outcropped hills.
From the metro.co.uk
More examples
  • An owner or tenant of a small farm in Great Britain
  • A croft is a fenced or enclosed area of land, usually small and arable with a crofter's dwelling thereon. A crofter is one who has tenure and use of the land.
  • Crofting is a form of land tenure and small-scale food production unique to the Scottish Highlands and the Islands of Scotland. ...
  • A tenant farmer. Crofters date back to the early 18th century.
  • Or tenant farmer (torpare or torppari) farms an part of independent farm, and he is obligated to some obligations like daywork for the main farm.
  • Tenant who works a croft.