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crofter

[ UK /kɹˈɒftɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an owner or tenant of a small farm in Great Britain

How To Use crofter In A Sentence

  • The local landowners and crofters have countered with an alternative proposal for a Wester Ross Wilderness Area.
  • Anecdotal evidence has long pointed to crofters being a hale and hearty breed - albeit prone to bad backs and the odd grumble.
  • Farmers and crofters can apply for annual payments for up to ten years for adopting environmentally friendly farming practices.
  • Dad is a crofter and a raddled drunk, who has an accident with a sheep that puts him in bed for a few days.
  • And that was the oddest thing of all - nobody could recall having encountered a group of better-dressed farmers and crofters in their long lifetimes.
  • If farmers' sons did not marry within their own class, they were most likely to marry the daughter of a crofter or farm worker.
  • In 1968 the Crofters Commission proposed that crofters be given full rights to the ownership of their crofts.
  • Twenty crofters who share common grazing can meet regularly to decide how many beasts each can graze on the common.
  • The Act gave communities of crofters and tenants the right to bid for an estate, backed by public funds, when it was put up for sale.
  • These crofter-fish harvesters were skilled at and knowledgeable about fishing for such purposes.
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