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Vinony

croft

noun

  1. fenced or enclosed area of land
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kɹɒft/ / /kɹɔf/ / /kɹɔft/

name

Etymology: * As an English surname, from the noun croft (“small piece of land”). * Also as an English surname, variant of Craft. * As a Danish, Swedish, German and Jewish surname, Americanized from Kraft. * The place in Leicestershire is from Old English cræft (“device”). Also compare Kroft.

  1. A surname from Middle English, from the common noun croft, and from places named Croft.
  2. A place in England:
  3. A place in England:
  4. A place in England:
  5. A place in England:
  6. An unincorporated community in Pratt County, Kansas, United States.

noun

Etymology: A variant of carafe.

  1. A carafe.

verb

Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English croft, crofft, croffte, croofte, crofte (“croft”), from Old English croft (“enclosed field”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from Proto-Germanic *kruftaz (“a hill; a curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend; arch, crook, curve”); see also crop. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch kroft, krocht, crocht (“high and dry land; a field on the downs”), Middle Low German kroch (“enclosed piece of farmland or pasture”), Scots croft, craft (“croft”). The verb is derived from the noun.

  1. To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.
  2. To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.