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† leighton Obs.
Forms: 1 léc-, léah-, léhtun, 3 ley(h)tun, leiȝhton, 4 lahtoun, leiȝ-, leyȝton, lectun, 7 liten, 8 laghton, laighton.
[OE. léahtún, earlier *léactún, f. léac leek + tún enclosure: see town.]
A garden.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Luke xiii. 19 Onᵹelic is corne senepes þætte ᵹenumen wæs monn sende in lehtune his. c1050Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 460/30 Ortus olerum, leahtun. c1275Passion Our Lord 291 in O.E. Misc. 45 Iwis þu were myd ihesu crist in þe leyhtune. 13..Childh. Jesu 1618 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1875) 54 Jacob..bad him go..A non riȝht doun into þe leiȝhtone, For to bringuen heom wuyrtone. a1327Treat. Dreams in Rel. Ant. I. 264 Lahtoun make ant to-delve. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. xvi. (Tollem. MS.), Some of pondes beþ stremes to water and moyste gardines and leiȝtons [ed. 1535 orcheyardes]. Ibid. xvii. 1, Some tren and herbes groweþ in leyȝtons [ed. 1535 croftes]. 1674Ray N.C. Words 30 Liten, a Garden. 17..R. Richardson in Leland's Itin. (ed. Hearne 1745) I. 140, I have met with several British Words that are still in use, such as Laghton for a Garden. 1775Watson Hist. Halifax 542 Laighton, a Garden.
Hence † leightonward, a gardener.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 127/14 Olitor, lectunward. c1275Passion Our Lord 576 in O.E. Misc. 53 Heo wende hit were þe leyhtunward þat to hire spek. |