croftland
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
croftland (countable and uncountable, plural croftlands)
- (Scotland) Land of superior quality, on which crops are raised.
- 1794, lexander Lowe, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Berwick:
- a small portion of the farm, which they distinguished into ontfield and croftland; the latter was in constant occupation , and required the whole dung made on the farın
References edit
- “croftland”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.