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croft (s.xiii)

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croft (s.xiii)

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[ FEW: *2/ii,1384a crypta; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: ∅; TL: ∅; DEAF: croft; DMF: ∅; TLF: ∅; OED: croft n.1; MED: croft n.; DMLBS: 520c crofta ]

crofte; crouft, croufte, cruffte, cruft, crufte, crufteyt,
pl. crofs

ls(loanword: M.E. )
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1agriculturalcroft, (small) enclosed field (usually attached to a farm or homestead):

( MS: s.xiii ) arcifinii: (A) croftes(var. (C: xiii^ex) les foreres; (D: xiii/xiv) crufftis, finis, forreris; (L: xiii^ex) 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

( 1294 ) un mes e une croufte 21-22 Ed I 619

( 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

crote#2 cruft

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