crofter
/krawf-ter, krof-/US // ˈkrɔf tər, ˈkrɒf- //UK // (ˈkrɒftə) //
庄稼人,庄稼汉,农民工,牧民
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
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British.
- : a person who rents and works a small farm, especially in Scotland or northern England.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as intenant farmer
Examples
The crofter who owned the lurcher dog lived a couple of miles off, so it was time for us to be on foot.
His father was a crofter on a little island somewhere near Skye.
It was recited to me, over against Dûn-I, by a friend who is a crofter in that part of Iona.
To solve it is to explain the crofter question without the aid of a Royal Commission.
Only by a polite figure of speech can the stone pile in which the Hebridean crofter makes his home be called a cottage.
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