0 someone who lives and works on a croft (= a very small farm, especially in Scotland):
The activities of farmers and crofters are vital to the wellbeing of the countryside.
Thousands of crofters were evicted from their homes in order to make room for profitable sheep-farming.
Servants were gradually replaced by other types of labour with work duties as crofters or different types of paid workers.
Even smallholders, crofters and cottagers in freehold parishes were better off in old age than former tenant farmers on the estates.
Tradition in the county maintains that depression results from loneliness in intelligent crofters.
On retirement, it must have been almost impossible to muster the means of subsistence from such a house or smaller crofter's holding.
Their labour duties were less onerous than those of crofters, and they were free to offer their labour in the local labour market.
Analysis reveals marked and unexpected differences in fertility and marital patterns between different types of community and between land-owning farmers and landrenting crofters.
