barton

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see also: Barton

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Noun

barton (plural bartons)

1. A farmyard.
   • 1816, John Keats, "For there's Bishop's Teign":

     There's the barton rich / With dyke and ditch / And hedge for the thrush to live in [...].

   • 1915, Thomas Hardy, "The Oxen":

     So fair a fancy few would weave / In these years! Yet, I feel, / If someone said on Christmas Eve, / “Come; see the oxen kneel, / “In the lonely barton by yonder coomb / Our childhood used to know,” / I should go with him in the gloom, / Hoping it might be so.

2. the lands of a manor reserved for the Lord's use
3. (archaic) an arrangement of blocks and pulleys; a burton

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Barton

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)tən/

Proper noun

1. Any of many places in England.
   1. A village in Preston, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD5137).
2. Any of many places named after the English places, of after persons with the surname, including:
   1. A ghost town/and/community in California.
   2. A town in Maryland.
   3. A town in New York.
   4. A community in Nova Scotia.
   5. An unincorporated community in Belmont County, Ohio.
   6. An unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon.
   7. A town/village/and/river in Vermont.
   8. A town in Wisconsin.
3. Surname from the places in England.
4. A male given name.

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