crofter has definitions from the field of agriculture
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[ noun ] (agriculture) an owner or tenant of a small farm in Great Britain

Used in print

(John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)

Thomas_Douglas , fifth Earl of Selkirk , a noble humanitarian Scot concerned with the plight of the crofters of his native Highlands , conceived a plan to settle them in the valley of the Red_River of the North .

Related terms

small_farmer

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