English Dictionary

crofting

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

A form of land tenure and small-scale food production, unique to the Highlands and islands of Scotland, in which individual crofts are established on the better land while a large area of poor-quality hill ground is shared by all the crofters of the township for grazing.

日本語の意味

スコットランドのハイランドおよび島嶼地域に固有の土地利用制度。良質な土地に個々のクロフト（小規模農園）が設立され、町内の全クロフターが質の低い丘陵地を共有して放牧などに利用する、小規模な食糧生産を伴う土地所有形態。

After inheriting a small parcel on the island, she devoted herself to crofting and to managing the township's shared hill grazing.

島で小さな土地を相続した後、彼女はスコットランド高地・諸島特有の小規模な土地保有と食料生産の形態に従事し、町の共同放牧地の管理にも携わった。

意味（1）

A form of land tenure and small-scale food production, unique to the Highlands and islands of Scotland, in which individual crofts are established on the better land while a large area of poor-quality hill ground is shared by all the crofters of the township for grazing.

Her father was a fisherman, and her family fed itself by crofting--age-old, small-plot, subsistence farming—living in a modest gray pebble-dash house, surrounded by a landscape of properties local historians and genealogists characterized with terms like “human wretchedness” and “indescribably filthy.”

意味（2）

The process of exposing linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process of bleaching.

croftings （ plural ）