barton

plural bartons

1. A farmyard.

   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

   1 more example

   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

2. the lands of a manor reserved for the Lord's use
3. archaican arrangement of blocks and pulleys; a burton

1. Any of many places in England:
   1. A hamlet in Barton and Pooley Bridge parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY4826).
   2. A hamlet in Temple Guiting parish, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP1025).
   3. A village in Preston, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD5137).
2. Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including:
   1. An unincorporated community in Amador County, California.
   2. A ghost town and community in Fresno County, California.
   3. A town in Maryland.
   4. An unincorporated community in Deuel County, Nebraska, derived from the surname.
   5. A town in Tioga County, New York.
   6. An unincorporated community in Belmont County, Ohio.
   7. An unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon.
   8. A town and village in Orange County, Vermont.
   9. A river in northern Vermont.
   10. A town in Wisconsin.
   11. A community in Nova Scotia.
3. An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
4. A habitational surname from Old English from the places in England.
5. A male given name transferred from the surname.

   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.

   2016 July 11, Julian Zelizer, “The vice presidency is no longer a joke”, in CNN