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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
  1. 1

    British.

    • : a person who rents and works a small farm, especially in Scotland or northern England.

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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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