See croft on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1530: Sir John Campbell of Glenurchy (in a lease to his \"weil belouit\" servant John M'Conoquhy V'Gregour)",
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"text": "Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft / The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; / And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.",
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