Person residing on and farming land owned by a landlord.
1 Then the crofter bent over him and looked straight into his eyes.
2 M'lord knows I'm just a crofter 's get, on the Wall for poaching?
3 His father was a crofter on a little island somewhere near Skye.
4 His father was just a land bailiff, and his grandfather a crofter . '
5 It was a small thing, really: the burned-out skeleton of a crofter 's cottage.
6 But by the time I reached the crofter 's hut, it was too late.
7 The crofter 's cattle went down in the disease, and one of them died.
8 He was born a peasant, the poorest of peasants, a crofter .
9 Was your father a farmer or crofter and fisherman in Dunrossness?-Yes.
10 The poverty of the crofter often renders his condition deplorable.
11 He's only a poor crofter like myself; so him you'll not miss, of course.
12 At last they had succeeded in finding the crofter .
13 Next time he woke it was late and they were manoeuvring inside a hill - crofter 's cottage.
14 I had my share of fishwives and crofter 's daughters, before and after I was wed.
15 You know what these crofter fellows are-ungrateful ,vindictiverascals.
16 He was watered at a watering-place on the roadside, where a crofter 's cattle watered daily.
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