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.
A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.
Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.