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Croft (land)
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, typically as a tenant farmer.
== Etymology ==
The word ''croft'' is West Germanic in etymology,〔From Old English 'croft', enclosed field, app. corresp. to Du. ''kroft'', ''krocht'', prominent rocky height, high and dry land, field on the downs. Ulterior etymology unknown. Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd. ed., 1989〕 and is now most familiar in Scotland, most crofts being in the Highlands and Islands area. Elsewhere the expression is generally archaic. In Scottish Gaelic, it is rendered ''croit'' (pron. (:krɔtʲ), plural ''croitean'' (:krɔtʲən))
Essentially similar positions have been the medieval ''villein'' and the Swedish ''torpare'' and Norwegian ''husmenn''.
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