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ˈhome-croft
= croft n.1 2. In accordance with a housing scheme for industrial workers, a detached cottage, with land and outbuildings for poultry and other small livestock. Also attrib. Hence ˈhomecrofter, ˈhome-crofting vbl. n.
1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede i. vi, The calves are bleating from the home-croft. 1925Public Opinion 7 Aug. 121/1 The industrial workers to spread out and become home-crofters as well as workers. 1925Spectator 5 Dec. 1018/1 Dr. Hilda Clark, whose work in Vienna was of such immense importance, has also sent us a terse but comprehensive account of the work and its objects. We note the interesting fact that she now calls these Land Settlements ‘Homecroft Holdings’. Ibid., We do not think that the word ‘homecrofting’ had been heard of in Vienna three years ago. 1926Ibid. 24 July 130/1 The land and buildings shall be used in perpetuity as ‘home-crofts’. 1927Daily Express 21 Nov. 3/1 Earl Beauchamp opened the first six cottages of a ‘home-crofting’ experiment. |