Crofting

Word CROFTING
Character 8
Hyphenation croft ing
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Crofting"

What do we mean by crofting?

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.

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

V. To squeeze the juice from a cherry using only the pressure from one's buttocks. Urban Dictionary

When you have sexual inter-course and then the female explodes with her period all over, EVERYWHERE! Urban Dictionary

To CROFT (verb) The ability to drink huge quantities of alcohol, bypass Vomiting, to go straight to Comatose often accompanied by Mandymoments. Comas are generally preceded by loud off key singing of pop songs and attempts at various forms of modern dancing (punk, break etc). The use of tequila often acts as a catalyst for crofting. Comas are usually temporary until the next Croft episode, as early as the next day. Excessive Crofting often leads to becoming a local urban legend. While crofting can occur with both male and female species, it is by far most entertaining when performed by the female species. Urban Dictionary

A person who is dictating, stubborn, and unwilling. They usually take the role of commanders or maybe even teachers. Don't get along with anybody. Urban Dictionary

A now seldom used Mancunian colloquialism for an area of derelict ground. As children growing up in 1970's inner city Manchester, we would spend many hours playing on nearby crofts - usually old pe-existing bombsites from WW2, or rubble strewn areas left over from the slum clearances of the 50's and 60's. Urban Dictionary

A poor attempt at "fixing" or upgrading an airsoft gun. Factors include poor workmanship, unsuited materials, assumed skill, & lack of tool control. Work & new parts may not as stated. Urban Dictionary

A nickname for a gangster, normally one that originates from America in the LA streets. Often affiliated with the Bloods or Crips. Urban Dictionary

To play Tomb Raider. To croft. Urban Dictionary

See James Croft Urban Dictionary

Crofting is a individual engaging in the licking of a mans testicles as a sexual act, this is very often referring to a homosexual situation. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Crofting

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The word "crofting" in example sentences

This process came to be called crofting, after the Scottish word for a small meadow (croft). ❋ Unknown (2010)

I think 'crofting' comes naturally to creative people ..... ❋ Unknown (2008)

"crofting" as a metaphor for the new world of work? ❋ Unknown (2008)

We toured it to places few shows had ever gone to – let alone a show about crofting and oil rigs. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Soon the bull, duty done, will be off to his winter quarters while most of the others will be moved on to the machair, where they will play their part in the crofting cycle which maintains one of Britain's rarest ecosystems. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are similarities to Scottish crofting townships – smallholdings with rough pastures, old fences in need of repair, livestock grazing by the shore, odd bits of disused machinery, and a sense of life reduced to simple necessities. ❋ Gavin Bell (2010)

Recent suggestions from the Chartered Management Institute that workers need to hone their transferable skills to survive the recession are wasted on Chalmers, who has what's referred to in these parts as a crofting career. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And apropos of nothing much, other than not skipping meals and crofting making a lot of sense for musicians, Sweet Soul Cooking with Shonna Tucker. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are also due to be Bills on the building of the new Forth Road Bridge, crofting and housing. ❋ Jeff (2009)

Regarding distilleries, if crofting communities and islands can own their own land, why can't distilleries? ❋ Jeff (2009)

This way, when he smiles, he'll be powering a Scottish crofting village, or a council estate in Croydon. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The whole intact primitive crofting township is designated an Ancient Monument. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"The publicity of one of the first organised riots was, in part, responsible for bringing about the crofting legislation," said the development group secretary. ❋ Unknown (2007)

To be fair, Andy Wightman's work was at least partly focussed not on values but on inequity of ownership - on abenteeism where people wanted "their acre" and was one of the research influences on the legislation that enabled crofting and other communities to acquire their land from ansentee landowners. ❋ Praguetory (2006)

Sunset Song, the classic crofting elegy set in the Mearns, has been voted Best Scottish Book of All Time. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Mr. Maconochie often wished he could have met the old man before he died; he knew he would have enjoyed the acquaintance of someone whose curiosity spanned subjects as varied as the migration patterns of the lesser crested grebe, the late clarinet quintets of Brahms, fourteenth-century Scottish crofting and the history of ice cream. ❋ Susan Cooper (2001)

Walking with a [mincing] gait, Jim shares a coy smile with his spectators, before sharply clenching his buttocks and neatly [crofting] the nectar from the [velvety] fruit. ❋ Capncat (2017)

dude i [juss] got [the croft] [last night].. ❋ DaddyCroft123 (2009)

She can [croft] with the best of them and last night drank 1/[5th] her bodyweight before falling over. Wow he has been [crofting] every night this week , the bars will notice when he stops crofting. ❋ Joerockhead (2013)

You're being [such a] Croft! ❋ NOSEBEST (2018)

"C'mon Tommy, we're going to build a new den on [the croft], cos them [Rusholme] lads have [ragged] the old one!" ❋ RedDan333 (2010)

"Be careful, you might croft it" "I may have to break out the [dremel] & do some [crofting]." "His gun was totally [crofted], wires hangin out!" ❋ Hotstryke (2008)

Yo, is that Crofts? [Yeah man], that’s the Blood [leader]! He’s [non binary]. ❋ Blood Blood Salim (2019)

I spent all day [crofting], I'm a [bit] [tired]. ❋ HarriTombRaider (2009)

[ez] croft ❋ Oracle (2004)

I went to empty the [bins] and there was a couple of [gay lads] [crofting] round the side. ❋ Big Bobbins (2014)

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