Plural of crofter; small-scale farmers who rent and work small plots of land called crofts.
From croft (a small farm, from Old Norse 'kroft') + -er (an agent suffix). Crofters were particularly common in Scotland and northern England from medieval times onward.
Scottish crofters became legendary for their resilience—during the Highland Clearances of the 1700s-1800s, many were brutally evicted, but crofting communities still thrive in the Scottish Isles and Highlands today as a protected way of life.
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