tofts

It consists of a number of tofts - peasant house plots and their accompanying gardens - in two rows with a village green, and is situated next to Ulnaby Hall farmhouse.

Ulnaby 2008

So the village craftsmen usually were, but tied to their tofts just as surely as the villeins to the land.

The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

So the village craftsmen usually were, but tied to their tofts just as surely as the villeins to the land.

The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

They got tofts of stiff heather and, using them as brushes, swept the cobwebs from the walls and rough ceiling.

The Adventurous Four Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952

I came to Whiteness, and there I saw many tofts of booths and much ground levelled for building.

The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown

Dignam laid in clay of an apoplexy and after hard drought, please God, rained, a bargeman coming in by water a fifty mile or thereabout with turf saying the seed won't sprout, fields athirst, very sadcoloured and stunk mightily, the quags and tofts too.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Presently they came out into a clearing of the wood, and lo, looming great and black before them against the sky, where the moon had now broken out of the clouds somewhat, the masses of the tofts, and at the top of the northernmost of them a light in the upper window of a tall square tower.

Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair 1895

Withal the yellow-litten windows of a long house showed on the plain below the tofts; but little else of the house might be seen, save that, as they drew near, the walls brake out in doubtful light here and there as the torches smote them.

Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair 1895

Olympe; moreover, the barbarians were encamped on three tofts of red sandstone on the north side of the river, at the station Tegulata, with, at their back, the Roman fortified position of _Panis Annonæ_, now called Pain de Munition, where one may conjecture Marius had his stores and reserves.

In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879

The sandstone tofts stand up above the plain, then undrained and marshy, as a dry base for their tents.

In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879