croft

Plural: crofts

Noun

A small, enclosed piece of arable land, usually with a house.
a small farm worked by a crofter
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.
An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.
A cave or cavern.
A carafe.

Verb

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

Examples

Finding CROFT on the board was like discovering a small, productive farm for points.

Origin / Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English croft, crofft, croffte, croofte, crofte (“croft”), 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.

Synonyms

quillet

Scrabble Score: 10

croft: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
croft: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
croft: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

croft: valid Words With Friends Word