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Meanings of crofter in anglès
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коттарий Person residing on and farming land owned by a landlord.
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Examples for "tenant farmer"
Examples for "tenant farmer"
1
Only in very exceptional cases has a tenant farmer been elected.
2
It is the carriage of a tenant farmer-butwhat a tenant!
3
Mrs. Levi Stewart, the wife of a tenant farmer, is on the witness stand.
4
He was born near Carlow town at Killeshin, the son of a tenant farmer.
5
You are a fisherman and tenant farmer at Haroldswick?-I am.
Usage of crofter in anglès
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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Crofter through the time