agriculturalcroft, (small) enclosed field (usually attached to a farm or homestead):
(
MS: s.xiii
)
arcifinii: (A) croftes
(var. (C: xiiiex) les foreres; (D: xiii/xiv) crufftis, finis, forreris; (L: xiiiex) crufteyt; (O: xii/xiii) cruftes; (T: xii/xiii) crofs)
ii 38
(
1260;
MS: c.1300
)
un acre de terre ou demy ou toft ou croft
3
(
1302
)
nostre seignour le roy avoit ordiné e graunté pur la cresaunz de la dit vile e pur son profit les croftes e les voides places qe gisent dentz le paliz de la vile
44
(
1341
)
un mesuage et une crofte ou comune en .cc. acres de more et bruere
Ed III vi 183
(
1409
)
ils purront couper tout le boys cressant deins les ditz croftes […] pour enclosers affaire
ii 144
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