toft
Americannoun
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the site of a house and outbuildings.
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a house site and its adjoining arable land.
noun
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a homestead
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an entire holding, consisting of a homestead and the attached arable land
Etymology
Origin of toft
before 1050; Middle English, late Old English < ?
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Each building is called a toft, a Norse-derived word for farmhouse or homestead.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2015
Thorpe occurs 29 times, with 8, toft 2, beck 4, fell 15, thwaite 6, dale 12, and tarn 2.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
I also feel very great doubt about names taken from places ending in by, thorp, and toft, in Lincolnshire and the ancient Denelaga, as being Scandinavian, and given at a distinctly later period.
From Surnames as a Science by Robert Ferguson
In Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire thorpe is comparatively rare, while toft is not found at all.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
It befell on a fair sunny morning of spring, that Ralph sat alone on the toft by the rock-house, for Ursula had gone down the meadow to disport her and to bathe in the river.
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris
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