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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Toft \Toft\, noun [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.] ''A tower on a toft.'' --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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
120 Moby Thesaurus words for "toft": acres, ancestral halls, arable land, arena, barnyard, barton, cattle ranch, chattels real, chicken farm, chimney corner, cincture, close, collective farm, confine, container, coop, cotton plantation, court, courtyard, croft, curtilage, dairy farm, delimited field, demesne, demesne farm, domain, dry farm, dude ranch, enclave, enclosure, estate, factory farm, fallow, family homestead, farm, farmery, farmhold, farmland, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, field, fireplace, fireside, fold, foyer, fruit farm, fur farm, grain farm, grange, grassland, ground, grounds, hacienda, hearth, hearth and home, hearthstone, home, home place, home roof, home sweet home, homecroft, homefarm, homestead, honor, house and grounds, house and lot, household, ingle, inglenook, ingleside, kibbutz, kolkhoz, land, landed property, lands, list, location, lot, lots, mains, manor, manor farm, menage, messuage, orchard, pale, paling, parcel, park, pasture, paternal roof, pen, place, plantation, plat, plot, poultry farm, praedium, property, quad, quadrangle, quadrat, ranch, rancheria, rancho, real estate, real property, realty, roof, rooftree, sheep farm, square, station, steading, stock farm, tenements, theater, truck farm, yard
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