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  Barton

  noun

  Clara, 1821–1912, U.S. philanthropist who organized the American Red Cross in 1881.
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  barton

  noun

  a farmyard

Barton

American  

[bahr-tn] / ˈbɑr tn /

noun

1. Clara, 1821–1912, U.S. philanthropist who organized the American Red Cross in 1881.

2. Derek H(arold) R(ichard), 1918–98, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1969.

3. Sir Edmund, 1849–1920, Australian jurist and statesman: prime minister 1901–03.

4. a first name.

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Barton ¹ British  

/ ˈbɑːtən /

noun

1. Sir Derek ( Harold Richard ). 1918–98, British organic chemist: shared the Nobel prize for chemistry (1969) for his work on conformational analysis

2. Sir Edmund 1849–1920, Australian statesman; first prime minister of Australia (1901–03)

3. Elizabeth , known as the Maid of Kent . ?1506–34, English nun, who claimed the gift of prophecy. Her criticism of Henry VIII's attempt to annul his first marriage led to her execution

4. John ( Bernard Adie ). born 1928, British theatre director, noted esp for his productions of Shakespeare

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barton ² British  

/ ˈbɑːtən /

noun

1. archaic a farmyard

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Etymology

Origin of barton

Old English beretūn , from bere barley + tūn stockade; see _town

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“For Barton, the past is instrumentalized for the present,” said John Fea, chair of the history department at Messiah University, a Christian school.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Last fall, Texas Board of Education members appointed Barton to help plan what more than five million public-school students in the state would learn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Legislators called King asking who to bring in to testify at hearings; he recommended Barton.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Barton and his son Tim supplied evidence from Barton’s archive showing the Ten Commandments in early textbooks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

I strode slightly uphill past five houses and St. James United Methodist Church, where we worshipped, to the corner of Barton Road.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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.

From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Thomas Hardy

The rector from one, Springrove from the other, came striding across the barton.

From Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy

At the back was a dairy barton, accessible for vehicles and live-stock by a side ‘drong.’

From Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy

"Do 'ee look at the roof of that cow barton," said Trivett presently.

From Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl by Horace W. C. (Horace Wykeham Can) Newte

He lives upon the sweepings of the barton; ha, ha!’ 

From The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy