单词 | toft and croft |
释义 | > as lemmastoft and croft c. toft and croft: a messuage with land attached: see toft n.1 toft and croft 1. Originally, a homestead, the site of a house and its out-buildings; a house site. Often in the expression toft and croft, denoting the whole holding, consisting of the homestead and attached piece of arable land. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > [noun] > site of or for (a) building(s) toft1001 stead1246 sole1417 sitea1443 plota1450 toftstead1524 ground-plat?a1560 ground-plot1580 seat1615 parterre1671 building-lot1701 emplacement1780 steading1822 building-place1839 block1840 subdivision1857 building-ground1858 building-estate1885 building-land1905 island site1907 island plot1908 tract1912 1001 in Kemble Cod. Dipl. III. 317 Healf þæt land æt Suðham, innur and uttur, on tofte and on crofte. a1100 in Sax. Leechd. III. 286 An ic agnian wille to agenre ahte ðæt ðæt ic hæbbe, & næfre ðæt yntan, ne plot ne ploh, ne turf ne toft, ne furh ne fotmæl, ne land ne læse, ne fersc ne mersc, ne ruh ne rum. 12.. Charter of Siflæd in Birch Cart. Sax. III. 217 And ic [an] mine landsethlen here toftes to owen aihte and alle mine men fre. 1290 Rolls of Parl. I. 62/1 Johanna..petit dotem..de viii to Toftis et viii to Bavatis terre. 1348 Rolls of Parl. II. 205/1 Un toft & cink acres de terre. 14.. Customs of Malton in Surtees Misc. (1888) 63 For every tofte þt is nott beldydd j d. 1473 in C. Rogers Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 165 Ilke man sal kepe his pairt of his malyn and his toft that his nichtbur be nocht injuryt. 1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. ii. Fines §55 A Toft is the place wherein a mesuage hath stand. 1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue v. 207 I haue..obserued..that many croftes, toftes, pightes, pingles, and other small quillits of land, about farme houses, and Tenements, are suffred to lie together idle. 1683 London Gaz. No. 1800/4 A Tuft of Ground..by Thames-Street, will be disposed of by Lease for 61 years, by the Committee for Letting the City Lands. 1766 J. Burrow Rep. Court King's Bench 2 1064 The Owner of a House may, if he pleases, pull it quite down, and convert it into a Toft. 1790 A. Wilson Poems 206 An' scores o' times, in kintra tafts, They've gart the fouk maist rive their chafts. 1809 W. Bawdwen tr. Domesday Bk. 614 But the riding say that he has only 9½ acres and one toft, the soke of which belongs to the King's Manor of Gayton. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. ix. 460 A house with its stables and farm-buildings, surrounded by a hedge or inclosure, was called a court, or..a curtilage; the toft or homestead of a more genuine English dialect. 1870 F. P. Verney Lettice Lisle xiii. 146 I might ha' been a comfortable man by this; and now I'm like to have neither toft nor croft. 1955 Times 19 Aug. 8/5 Even a layman, with guidance, can recognize the signs pointing to medieval occupation: the hollow said to be the main street; the adjoining humps of the house enclosures, each with its ‘toft’ (garden) and croft, or small holding. 1965 W. H. Auden About House (1966) 17 A toft-and-croft Where I needn't, ever, be at home to Those I am not at home with. < as lemmas |
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