barton1
(ˈbɑːtən)
Forms: 1 bere-tun, 7 barten, berton, 7–9 dial. barken, 6– barton.
[OE. bęre-t{uacu}n barley-enclosure, courtyard, farmstead, etc., f. bęre barley (see bear n.2) + t{uacu}n enclosure: see town. Cf. barn, OE. bere-ærn.]
† 1. A threshing-floor. Obs.; only in OE.
| c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. iii. 12 Ðerh clænsade bere-tun [Vulg. aream] his. |
2. A farm-yard. (The regular modern sense.)
| 1552 Huloet, Barton or place enclosed where husbandry is vsed, cohors. 1674 Ray S. & E. Countr. Wds. 58 A Barken or (as they use it in Sussex) Barton: a yard of a house, a backside. 1721 Bailey, Barton..a Backside, Fold-yard or Out-house. 1816 Southey Poet's Pilgr. iii. 41 Spacious bartons clean, well-wall'd around, Where all the wealth of rural life was found. |
| attrib. 1787 Winter Syst. Husb. 59 Stale urine and barton draining, are greatly preferable to dung. 1862 Barnes Rhymes Dorset Dial. I. 79 Flop Down into barken pon'. |
3. A demesne farm; the demesne lands of a manor, not let out to tenants, but retained for the lord's own use.
| [a 1243 Monast. Angl. II. 887 (Du Cange), Et in Bertonia mea de Cadeham unum locum ad construendam aliam grangiam. 1393 Rot. 17 Rich. II (Spelman), Gulielmus le Scrope..habet Castrum, villam et bertonam de Marlebergh.] 1587 Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 303/2 He also did..purchase the lordship and house of Clist Sachisfield, and..did inlarge the Barton thereof, by gaining of Cornish wood. 1602 Carew Cornwall 36 a, That part of the demaines, which appertaineth to the Lord's dwelling house, they call his Barten, or Berton. 1724 Lond. Gaz. No. 6253/3 The Barton of Tregarrick..contains 80 Acres of..good Land, 150 Acres of good Arable, etc. 1813 Vancouver Agric. Devon 253 A fine grove of Scotch and silver fir on the barton of Bridestow. |
| attrib. c 1630 Risdon Surv. Devon §91 The barton tenants [cf. bartoner]. 1708 Lond. Gaz. No. 4412/3 The Barton-House of Kentaberry. |
† 4. An enclosure for poultry, a pen.
Obs.| 1552 Huloet, Inclusure called a barton to feade fowles in, chors. 1756 Nugent Montesquieu's Spir. Laws (1758) II. xxxi. xviii. 452 The eggs of the bartons of his demesnes. 1783 Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell), A barton for poultry, gallinarium. |
† 5. Used to translate L.
cavædium: The inner court of a Roman house.
Obs.| 1519 W. Horman Vulg. 138 Moche of the showre felle into the louer: but moche more into the barton [L. cauedium]. |