barton
nomattesté dans les dialogues
A farmyard.
nom
- 1
A farmyard.
There's the barton rich / With dyke and ditch / And hedge for the thrush to live in [...].
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.
- 2
the lands of a manor reserved for the Lord's use
- 3
archaïquean arrangement of blocks and pulleys; a burton
Étymologie
From Old English bere (“barley”) + tūn (“place”).
Formes
- pluriel
- bartons