Person residing on and farming land owned by a landlord.
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Examples for "crofter"
Examples for "crofter"
1Then the crofter bent over him and looked straight into his eyes.
2M'lord knows I'm just a crofter's get, on the Wall for poaching?
3His father was a crofter on a little island somewhere near Skye.
4His father was just a land bailiff, and his grandfather a crofter.'
5It was a small thing, really: the burned-out skeleton of a crofter's cottage.
1Only in very exceptional cases has a tenant farmer been elected.
2It is the carriage of a tenant farmer-butwhat a tenant!
3Mrs. Levi Stewart, the wife of a tenant farmer, is on the witness stand.
4He was born near Carlow town at Killeshin, the son of a tenant farmer.
5You are a fisherman and tenant farmer at Haroldswick?-I am.
6He was a tenant farmer on the farm, which has been in my family since.
7A tenant farmer of the land-owner had been offered the sludge free by a contractor.
8On a winter morning a tenant farmer living nearby, Lloyd Wilson, was found shot dead.
9Cotton (whole books are suggested here, the tenant farmer being one of the subjects)
10It takes an exceptional Negro to succeed in the desperate struggle from sharecropper to tenant farmer.
11Edwards had been a tenant farmer where his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had lived before him.
12The first was a tenant farmer who worked for Lester McCoy, a well-known western-Kansas landowner and businessman.
13The estrangement that has been promoted between the labourer and the tenant farmer effectually shuts the latter out.
14Any tenant farmer in England can have his land drained by the Government by paying six per cent.
15There has also been a very marked tendency to enlarge the rights and the authority of the tenant farmer.
16His father, Thomas Adams, was a tenant farmer; his mother, Tabitha Knill Grylls, inherited a small estate at Badharlick.