crofter
Kelime Anlamı :
1. çiftçi.
2. küçük araziyi işleten çiftçi.
3. ufak çiftlik işleten.
4. küçük çiftlik.
5. eve bitişik tarla.
6. eve bitişik etrafı duvarla çevrili ufak tarla.
7. küçük alan.
8. crofter bir tarla veya çiftliği kiralayan ve işleten adam.
Tanımlar :
1.
chiefly british one who rents and cultivates a croft; a tenant farmer.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1.
one who has the tenure of a croft, usually also the occupant and user.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1.
one who rents and tills a small farm or holding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1.
one who occupies or cultivates a croft; specifically, a small farmer on the western coast and islands of scotland. the scotch crofter is a small land-tenant, whose holding is not large enough to be called a farm or to support him by tillage. he is the counterpart of the irish cottier.
2. originally a customary tenant with well-defined rights to his holding, in the early nineteenth century the crofter came to be regarded merely as a tenant at will. wholesale evictions of crofters led, in 1883, to the appointment of a parliamentary commission of investigation, the result of which was the enactment, in 1885, of the crofters act, which guaranteed permanence of tenure, compensation for improvements, and fair rents, determined by a permanent commission.
2. originally a customary tenant with well-defined rights to his holding, in the early nineteenth century the crofter came to be regarded merely as a tenant at will. wholesale evictions of crofters led, in 1883, to the appointment of a parliamentary commission of investigation, the result of which was the enactment, in 1885, of the crofters act, which guaranteed permanence of tenure, compensation for improvements, and fair rents, determined by a permanent commission.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia