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crofter
noun
One who has the tenure of a croft, usually also the occupant and user.
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I played one day with Ralph Thompson and Donald MacInnes, who is the club's captain, as well as a builder and a crofter.
"His property is slumlike," the developer said of the crofter.
In Scottish parlance, he is a crofter.
This may be the first time Billy Connolly has been heard to say that he doesn't have an opinion (recently asked about the referendum, he replied that he had more in common with a welder from Liverpool than a Highlands crofter, but wouldn't be voting in September).
In one scene, a crofter mistakenly believes his wife and Hannay are plotting a late-night tryst after seeing them converse and not hearing what they say.
Having made the leap from crofter to laird, McMillan presided over his own property, a 150,000-acre estate named Bushy Park, in a tweed three-piece suit and a tartan bonnet.
There was the shaded cabanon in the L'Occitane Immortelle Garden, Vicky Harris's stone crofter's hut in her Naturally Dry garden and the shepherd's stone hut in Borut Benedejcic's Pepa's Story Artisan Garden.
"He was being all nicey, nicey and talking about how successful he was and how much money he had," the crofter told The Scotsman.
He is a crofter, a lifestyle peculiar to the Scottish Highlands and Islands.
The son of a crofter, Muir received his education in Kirkwall.
There are approximately 4,000 of these crofter holdings and 168 crofter townships, nearly all situated on the coast, for the crofters were formerly dependent on inshore fishing to supplement their livelihood.
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