"toft" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Old Norse toft, from Proto-Germanic *tumþiz, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build”).",
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      "form": "tofts",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "A hillock."
      ],
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          "hillock"
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          "text": "Rendering therefore annually to me and my heirs one halfpenny on the day of the nativity of St. John the Baptist for all suits services and demands and I the said Alice and my heirs the aforesaid toft and land with all their appurtenances as is before named to the said William and his heirs[…].",
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        },
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          "text": "2003, C. S. Knighton (editor), Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery): Preserved in the Public Record Office, Volume VIII: 1422—1485, page 73,\nWynnemerus Preston lately held 2 cottages wasted of which the tofts are worth 2d. net yearly and another cottage wasted of which the toft is worth 6d. net yearly."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, M. J. Hebditch, editor, Yorkshire Deeds, volume 9, page 34:",
          "text": "[…]the lands of Peter de Sourdeuall in Esk, Brandesburton and Routh[…]namely, half the capital messuage with the enclosure (ofuenam) as it is bounded and fenced, and a bovate of land which belonged to John, son of Emmot, and a toft which Henry, son of Walter, held, and a toft which Roger the carpenter (le carpentre) held,[…].",
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        "A homestead, especially one on a hill."
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          "hill",
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        "A messuage with right of common."
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒft"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "A hillock."
      ],
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          "text": "Rendering therefore annually to me and my heirs one halfpenny on the day of the nativity of St. John the Baptist for all suits services and demands and I the said Alice and my heirs the aforesaid toft and land with all their appurtenances as is before named to the said William and his heirs[…].",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, M. J. Hebditch, editor, Yorkshire Deeds, volume 9, page 34:",
          "text": "[…]the lands of Peter de Sourdeuall in Esk, Brandesburton and Routh[…]namely, half the capital messuage with the enclosure (ofuenam) as it is bounded and fenced, and a bovate of land which belonged to John, son of Emmot, and a toft which Henry, son of Walter, held, and a toft which Roger the carpenter (le carpentre) held,[…].",
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      ],
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        ],
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          "hill",
          "hill"
        ]
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        "A messuage with right of common."
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  "word": "toft"
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