Noun: barton
| Singular | barton |
| Plural | bartons |
Sample Sentences
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There's the barton rich / With dyke and ditch / And hedge for the thrush to live in [...]. [1816, John Keats, For there's Bishop's Teign:]
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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. [1915, Thomas Hardy, The Oxen:]
Nouns inflected like barton
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old English bere (“barley”) + tūn (“place”). See: Old English Nouns '
bere'.