croft

Meanings

Plural: crofts

Noun

a small farm worked by a crofter
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.
An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.
A cave or cavern.
A carafe.

Verb

To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.
To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.

Origin / Etymology

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.

Synonyms

quillet

Scrabble Score: 10

croft is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
croft is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
croft is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

croft is a valid Words With Friends word