toft

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Every native and villein (which were such as we call husbandmen) paid each a cock and a hen, besides a small rent in money, for a toft and one bovate of land, held of the Priory of Thurgarton.

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  1. noun Chiefly British A homestead.
  2. noun Chiefly British A hillock.

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  1. Middle English, from Old English, from Old Norse topt; see dem- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also tuft (see tuft); from Middle English toft (Anglo-Latin toftum), from Icelandic toft, topt, tupt, tomt, a knoll, a clearing, a cleared space, an inclosed piece of ground, =Norwegian tomt, tuft =Swedish tomt, a clearing, toft, the site of a house, =Danish toft, an inclosed field near a house; literally an empty space, from Icelandic tōmt (=Swedish tomt), a neuter of tōmr =Swedish tom, etc., empty: see toom.
  2. from tuft.
 

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