Toft

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Chiefly British A homestead.
  • n. Chiefly British A hillock.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a homestead, especially one on a hill
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A knoll or hill.
  • n. A grove of trees; also, a plain.
  • n. A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A hillock; a slightly elevated and exposed site; open ground.
  • n. A messuage; a house and homestead. Also toftstead.
  • n. In English common law:
  • n. A messuage the tenant of which is entitled by virtue of it to rights of common in other land in the parish or district.
  • n. A piece of ground on which a messuage formerly stood, and which, though the messuage be gone to decay, is still called by a name indicating something more than mere land.
  • n. A grove of trees.
    • Word Usage
    "In Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire thorpe is comparatively rare, while toft is not found at all."
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    soft    waft   
     
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