Cro
an early term for a compensation paid to the relatives or friends of someone who had been killed, by the killer(s), also sometimes called weregild or wergild. A later term for such compensation was assythement.
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croft
a small agricultural holding, originally a general term, for example the house and large garden belonging to a burgess might be termed ‘toft and croft’. After the Crofters Act of 1883 the term became a specific type of land tenure in the counties of Argyll, Caithness, Inverness, Orkney, Ross and Cromarty, Shetland and Sutherland.