barton

See also: Barton, Bartoń, and Bartoň

English

Etymology

From Old English bere (“barley”) + tūn (“place”).

Noun

barton (plural bartons)

1. A farmyard.
   • 1816, John Keats, "For there's Bishop's Teign":

     There's the barton rich / With dyke and ditch / And hedge for the thrush to live in [...].

   • 1915, Thomas Hardy, "The Oxen":

     So fair a fancy few would weave / In these years! Yet, I feel, / If someone said on Christmas Eve, / “Come; see the oxen kneel, / “In the lonely barton by yonder coomb / Our childhood used to know,” / I should go with him in the gloom, / Hoping it might be so.

2. the lands of a manor reserved for the Lord's use
3. (archaic) an arrangement of blocks and pulleys; a burton

Anagrams

• Taborn, Tabron