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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Toft \Toft\, n. [OE. toft a knoll; akin to LG. toft a field hedged in, not far from a house, Icel. topt a green knoll, grassy place, place marked out for a house, Dan. toft.] 1. A knoll or hill. [Obs.] [bd]A tower on a toft.[b8] --Piers Plowman. 2. A grove of trees; also, a plain. [Prov. Eng.] 3. (O. Eng. Law) A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house. | |
