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English
Etymology
From Old English bere (“barley”) + tūn (“place”).
Noun
barton (plural bartons)
- 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.
- the lands of a manor reserved for the Lord's use
- (archaic) an arrangement of blocks and pulleys; a burton
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