croft
nomverbenomnomattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//kɹɒft//
- États-Unis//kɹɔft//
- Canada//kɹɑft//
- Canada//kɹɒft//
An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters.
nom
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An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters.
...to haue set and for malis and service...the four markland of Kincrakin...with the croft of Polgreyich and the croft that Ewin M'Ewin was wount to haue...
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft / The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; / And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Étymologie
The noun is derived from Middle English croft, crofft, croffte, croofte, crofte (“croft”), from Old English croft (“enclosed field”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from Proto-Germanic *kruftaz (“a hill; a curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend; arch, crook, curve”); see also crop. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch kroft, krocht, crocht (“high and dry land; a field on the downs”), Middle Low German kroch (“enclosed piece of farmland or pasture”), Scots croft, craft (“croft”). The verb is derived from the noun.
verbe
- 1
To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.
- 2
archaïqueTo place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.
nom
- 1
archaïqueAn underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.
- 2
archaïqueA cave or cavern.
Étymologie
From Middle English croft, crofte, croufte, crufte (“crypt; vault”), from Old English cruft, from Latin crupta, crypta (“crypt; vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτή (kruptḗ), feminine form of κρῠπτός (krŭptós, “concealed, hidden; secret”), from κρύπτω (krúptō, “to conceal, hide; to obscure”) (further etymology unknown) + -ος (-os). The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch croft, crocht, crochte, crogt, cruft, crufte (modern Dutch krocht (“underground cavity, cave; underground vault, crypt”)), Middle Low German krucht, kruft (“crypt”), Old High German cruft (Middle High German kruft (“cave; crypt”)). Doublet of grotto and crypt.
nom
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archaïqueA carafe.
Étymologie
A variant of carafe.
Formes
- pluriel
- crofts
- passé
- crofted
- participe passé
- crofted
- participe présent
- crofting
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- crofts
croft · An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular,…
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