different between croft vs crost

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kr?ft, IPA^(key): /k??ft/
• (General American) enPR: krôft, IPA^(key): /k??ft/
• (Canada, cot–caught merger) enPR: kr?ft, IPA^(key): /k??ft/
• Rhymes: -?ft

Etymology 1

The noun is derived from Middle English croft, crofft, croffte, croofte, crofte (“small, usually enclosed, agricultural land, often adjoining a house; any enclosed land, courtyard”), 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.

Noun

croft (plural crofts)

1. An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters.

   Synonym: quillet

   • 1530: Sir John Campbell of Glenurchy (in a lease to his "weil belouit" servant John M'Conoquhy V'Gregour)

     ...to haue set and for malis and service...the four markland of Kincrakin...with the croft of Polgreyich and the croft that Ewin M'Ewin was wount to haue...

Translations

Verb

croft (third-person singular simple present crofts, present participle crofting, simple past and past participle crofted)

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

Translations

Derived terms

• crofter
• crofting

Etymology 2

From Middle English croft, crofte, croufte, crufte (“crypt; vault”), from Old English cruft, from Latin crupta, crypta (“crypt; vault”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (krupt?), feminine form of ??????? (kruptós, “concealed, hidden; secret”), from ?????? (krúpt?, “to conceal, hide; to obscure”) (further etymology unknown) + -?? (-os). The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch croft, crocht, crochte, crogt, cruft, crufte (modern Dutch krocht (“underground cavity, cave; underground vault, crypt”)), Middle Low German krucht, kruft (“crypt”), Old High German cruft (Middle High German kruft (“cave; crypt”)). Doublet of grotto and crypt.

Noun

croft (plural crofts) (archaic)

1. An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.
2. A cave or cavern.

Derived terms

• undercroft

Translations

Etymology 3

A variant of carafe.

Noun

croft (plural crofts)

1. (archaic) A carafe.

References

Further reading

• croft (land) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• croft (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “croft” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Anagrams

• ROTFC, forc't

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

crost (plural crosts)

1. Pronunciation spelling of cross.

Verb

crost

1. (archaic or poetic) simple past tense and past participle of cross

Anagrams

• COTRs, ctors, torcs