Crofter

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who has the tenure of a croft, usually also the occupant and user.

    "c. 1795: Sir John Sinclair ...yet even these sub-divisions are diminished by a still lower order of occupiers (if such they may be deemed) under the name of acre men or crofters. This extraordinary class of cultivators appear to have been quartered upon the tenants after the farms were split down into their smallest size: the crofters being a species of sub-tenants on the farms to which they are respectively attached"

  2. 2
    an owner or tenant of a small farm in Great Britain wordnet

Etymology

From croft + -er.

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