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Crofting

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A form of land tenure and small-scale food production, unique to the Highlands and islands of Scotland, in which individual crofts are established on the better land while a large area of poor-quality hill ground is shared by all the crofters of the township for grazing. countable, uncountable

    "Her father was a fisherman, and her family fed itself by crofting--age-old, small-plot, subsistence farming—living in a modest gray pebble-dash house, surrounded by a landscape of properties local historians and genealogists characterized with terms like “human wretchedness” and “indescribably filthy.”"

  2. 2
    The process of exposing linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process of bleaching. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of croft form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From croft + -ing.

Etymology 2

From croft + -ing.

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