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TOFT
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English
English : variant of Taft. Compare Toft.
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American, British, English
From the Small Farm
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English
English : topographic name or habitational name from a dialect variant of Old and Middle English toft ‘curtilage’, ‘site’, ‘homestead’, also applied to a low hillock where a homestead used to be. Compare Toft.Robert Taft (b. about 1640), lived in Braintree, MA, and subsequently Mendon, MA. Alphonso Taft (1810–91), jurist and politician born in Townshend, VT, was the father of William Howard Taft (1857–1930), 27th president of the U.S. and chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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English : habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and Warwickshire, named in Old Norse with topt, Old Danish toft ‘curtilage’, ‘site’, ‘homestead’.Scandinavian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads or place names derived from Old Norse topt ‘curtilage’, ‘site’, ‘homestead’.
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English (Midlands)
English (Midlands) : variant of Taft. Compare Toft.
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English : probably a variant spelling of Bircham, a habitational name from a group of villages in Norfolk (Great Bircham, Bircham Newton, and Bircham Tofts), named with Old English brÄ“c ‘newly cultivated ground’ + hÄm ‘homestead’. There is also a Bircham in Devon, named with Old English birce ‘birch’ + hÄm or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’, which could have given rise to the surname.
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The owner of a toft. See Toft, 3.
n.
A knoll or hill.
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of Toftman
n.
A species of ichneumon (Herpestes nyula). Its fur is beautifully variegated by closely set zigzag markings. O () O, the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, derives its form, value, and name from the Greek O, through the Latin. The letter came into the Greek from the Ph/nician, which possibly derived it ultimately from the Egyptian. Etymologically, the letter o is most closely related to a, e, and u; as in E. bone, AS. ban; E. stone, AS. stan; E. broke, AS. brecan to break; E. bore, AS. beran to bear; E. dove, AS. d/fe; E. toft, tuft; tone, tune; number, F. nombre.
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A grove of trees; also, a plain.
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A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house.