toft
- noun [ masculine ]
- Prol. 14; while later, according to Kenuett, it is' a field where a house
or building once stood.' In the following passages it may mean the enclosed
ground in which the house stood
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Healf ðæt land æt Súðhám, innur and úttur, on tofte and on crofte,
- Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 317, 7.
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Nǽfre myntan ne plot ne plóh, ne turf ne toft,
- L. O. 13; Th. i. 184, 7 ; Lchdm. iii. 286, 23. [Ic an
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Alle míne men fré, and ilk habbe his toft and his metecfi and his metecú. And ic an þe préstes toft into þe kirke fre . . . And ic an Léfquéne fítténe acres and an toft . . . And Alfwold habbe, mid tón þe hé hér hauede, .xvi. acres mid tofte mid alle. Chart. Th. 580,
- 6-27. v. Grmm. R. A. 539.
Bosworth, Joseph. “toft.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/30678.
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