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barton1|ˈbɑːtən| Forms: 1 bere-tun, 7 barten, berton, 7–9 dial. barken, 6– barton. [OE. bęre-tún barley-enclosure, courtyard, farmstead, etc., f. bęre barley (see bear n.2) + tún enclosure: see town. Cf. barn, OE. bere-ærn.] †1. A threshing-floor. Obs.; only in OE.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. iii. 12 Ðerh clænsade bere-tun [Vulg. aream] his. 2. A farm-yard. (The regular modern sense.)
1552Huloet, Barton or place enclosed where husbandry is vsed, cohors. 1674Ray S. & E. Countr. Wds. 58 A Barken or (as they use it in Sussex) Barton: a yard of a house, a backside. 1721Bailey, Barton..a Backside, Fold-yard or Out-house. 1816Southey Poet's Pilgr. iii. 41 Spacious bartons clean, well-wall'd around, Where all the wealth of rural life was found. attrib.1787Winter Syst. Husb. 59 Stale urine and barton draining, are greatly preferable to dung. 1862Barnes Rhymes Dorset Dial. I. 79 Flop Down into barken pon'. 3. A demesne farm; the demesne lands of a manor, not let out to tenants, but retained for the lord's own use.
[a1243Monast. Angl. II. 887 (Du Cange), Et in Bertonia mea de Cadeham unum locum ad construendam aliam grangiam. 1393Rot. 17 Rich. II (Spelman), Gulielmus le Scrope..habet Castrum, villam et bertonam de Marlebergh.] 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 303/2 He also did..purchase the lordship and house of Clist Sachisfield, and..did inlarge the Barton thereof, by gaining of Cornish wood. 1602Carew Cornwall 36 a, That part of the demaines, which appertaineth to the Lord's dwelling house, they call his Barten, or Berton. 1724Lond. Gaz. No. 6253/3 The Barton of Tregarrick..contains 80 Acres of..good Land, 150 Acres of good Arable, etc. 1813Vancouver Agric. Devon 253 A fine grove of Scotch and silver fir on the barton of Bridestow. attrib.c1630Risdon Surv. Devon §91 The barton tenants [cf. bartoner]. 1708Lond. Gaz. No. 4412/3 The Barton-House of Kentaberry. †4. An enclosure for poultry, a pen. Obs.
1552Huloet, Inclusure called a barton to feade fowles in, chors. 1756Nugent Montesquieu's Spir. Laws (1758) II. xxxi. xviii. 452 The eggs of the bartons of his demesnes. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell), A barton for poultry, gallinarium. †5. Used to translate L. cavædium: The inner court of a Roman house. Obs.
1519W. Horman Vulg. 138 Moche of the showre felle into the louer: but moche more into the barton [L. cauedium]. |