croft

FREQ #16439

n. 小田地, 小农场

发音

UK /kɹɒft/
其它 /kɹɔf/
US /kɹɔft/
CA /kɹɑft/
US /kɹɑft/
CA /kɹɒft/
US /kɹɒft/

词形变化

crofts 复数 crofted crofting crofts 三单 crofts crofting 现在分词 crofted 过去式 crofted 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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...

  2. 1.

    An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.

    古体
  3. 2.

    A cave or cavern.

    古体
  4. 1.

    A carafe.

    古体
v.
  1. 1.

    To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.

    古体 及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

farm

相关短语

Croft and Yarpole Croft Spa goodman's croft toft and croft Joan Croft

词源

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.

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