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toft

[tawft, toft]
–noun British Dialect.
1. the site of a house and outbuildings.
2. a house site and its adjoining arable land.

Origin:
bef. 1050; ME, late OE < ?
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toft   (tôft, tŏft)   
n.   Chiefly British
  1. A homestead.

  2. A hillock.


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