Meaning of Barton | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of many places in England:
2. A hamlet in Barton and Pooley Bridge parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY4826).
3. A farmyard.
4. A hamlet in Temple Guiting parish, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP1025).
5. the lands of a manor reserved for the Lord's use
6. A village in Preston, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD5137).
7. an arrangement of blocks and pulleys; a burton
   archaic
8. Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including:
9. An unincorporated community in Amador County, California.
10. A ghost town and community in Fresno County, California.
11. A town in Maryland.
12. An unincorporated community in Deuel County, Nebraska, derived from the surname.
13. A town in Tioga County, New York.
14. An unincorporated community in Belmont County, Ohio.
15. An unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon.
16. A town, village, and river in Vermont.
17. A town in Wisconsin.
18. A community in Nova Scotia.
19. An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
20. A habitational surname from Old English from the places in England.
21. A male given name transferred from the surname.

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Examples

“As Washington Post⟳ reporter Barton Gellman showed in his brilliant biography, Cheney deployed his masterful knowledge of policymaking to exert influence⟳ at all levels of government.”

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

“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.”

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