Usually means: Small, enclosed farm or field.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word croft:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. croft: Merriam-Webster
  2. croft: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. croft: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. croft: Collins English Dictionary
  5. croft: Vocabulary.com
  6. Croft, croft: Wordnik
  7. croft: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Croft, croft: Wiktionary
  9. croft: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. croft: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. croft: Dictionary.com
  12. croft: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Croft (disambiguation), Croft (land), Croft (surname), Croft, The Croft: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Croft: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. croft: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. croft: Rhymezone
  17. Croft: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. croft: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. croft: FreeDictionary.org
  20. croft: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. croft: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. croft: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Croft (disambiguation), Croft: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Croft (land), croft: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Croft, The Croft, croft: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  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.
verb:  (intransitive) To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.
noun:  An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.
noun:  A cave or cavern.
noun:  (archaic) A carafe.
noun:  A surname from Middle English, from the common noun croft, and from places named Croft.
noun:  A village and civil parish in Warrington borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6393).
noun:  A village and civil parish in Blaby district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP5195).
noun:  A village and civil parish in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF5061).
noun:  An unincorporated community in Pratt County, Kansas, United States.

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