Noun:

भूमि गृह, गृहलग्न-भूमि,

crofts's Usage Examples:

In some cases even the newly created crofts were cleared.

He also carried on business as a tallow chandler, his premises extending from High street to the High House Inn in the Crofts.

Despite promising signs in the Gully, the nearby crofts were not exactly brimming with migrants.

Crofts added a fourth very shortly after when the keeper made another blooper, dropping a catch at the marksman's feet.

The landowners found thousands of the crofts on which their villeins had been wont to dwell vacant, and could not fill them with new tenants.

The distinction as against bordarii and cottagers is based on the size of the holding: the villeins are holders of regular shares in the village - that is, of the virgates, bovates or half-hides which constitute the principal subdivisions in the fields and contribute to form the ploughteams - whereas the bordarii hold smaller plots of some 5 acres, more or less, and cottarii are connected with mere cottages and crofts.

Amending statutes of succeeding years added to the commissioners' powers of fixing fair rents and cancelling arrears, the power of enlarging crofts and common grazings.

Until the Restoration he was placed under the care, first of Lord Crofts, by whose name he was known, and then of the queen-dowager, receiving his education to the age of nine from Roman Catholics, but thenceforward from Protestant tutors.

The size of the crofts varies greatly.

Although there are some good arable farms in favoured districts, the vast majority of holdings are small crofts occupied mostly by peasants who combine fishing with farming.

Synonyms:

farm,