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plural bartons
A farmyard. quotations examples
There's the barton rich / With dyke and ditch / And hedge for the thrush to live in [...].
1816, John Keats, For there's Bishop's Teign
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.
1915, Thomas Hardy, The Oxen
the lands of a manor reserved for the Lord's use examples
(archaic) an arrangement of blocks and pulleys; a burton