Crofter and the crater...A MYSTERY explosion has blasted blast·ed adj. 1. Used as an intensive: I hate these blasted flies. 2. Slang Drunk or intoxicated. 3. Blighted, withered, or shriveled. a large crater crater, circular, bowl-shaped depression on the earth's surface. (For a discussion of lunar craters, see moon.) Simple craters are bowl-shaped with a raised outer rim. Complex craters have a raised central peak surrounded by a trough and a fractured rim. on an uninhabited Shetland Shetland, former county, Scotland: see under Shetland Islands. island. The 20ft crater was found by crofter croft·er n. Chiefly British One who rents and cultivates a croft; a tenant farmer. Noun 1. crofter - an owner or tenant of a small farm in Great Britain small farmer - a farmer on a small farm and fisherman Arthur Polson on the tiny island of Mooa, off Whalsay, where he lives. At first Mr Polson, 65, who grazes sheep on Mooa, thought the hole was caused by the ground falling into a cave that runs under the island. But he said: "I just wonder if there was an explosion in the cave, perhaps caused by something floating in on the tide." |
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