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noun British.
1.
a small farm, especially one worked by a tenant.
2.
a small plot of ground adjacent to a house and used as a kitchen garden, to pasture one or two cows, etc.; a garden large enough to feed a family or have commercial value.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English, Old English: small field
before 1000; Middle English, Old English: small field
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Croft
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O.E. croft "enclosed field," of unknown etymology. Crofter is 1799, originally Scottish.
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