We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of crofter in English
Russian
коттарий Person residing on and farming land owned by a landlord.
Related terms
Synonyms
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 English
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.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Crofter through the time