toft

Toft \Toft\, n. [OE. toft a knoll; akin to LG. toft a field
   hedged in, not far from a house, Icel. topt a green knoll,
   grassy place, place marked out for a house, Dan. toft.]
   1. A knoll or hill. [Obs.] "A tower on a toft." --Piers
      Plowman.
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   2. A grove of trees; also, a plain. [Prov. Eng.]
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   3. (O. Eng. Law) A place where a messuage has once stood; the
      site of a burnt or decayed house.
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TOFT. A place or piece of ground on which, a house formerly stood, which has 
been destroyed by accident or decay; it also signifies a messuage. 
    

120 Moby Thesaurus words for "toft":
      acres, ancestral halls, arable land, arena, barnyard, barton,
      cattle ranch, chattels real, chicken farm, chimney corner,
      cincture, close, collective farm, confine, container, coop,
      cotton plantation, court, courtyard, croft, curtilage, dairy farm,
      delimited field, demesne, demesne farm, domain, dry farm,
      dude ranch, enclave, enclosure, estate, factory farm, fallow,
      family homestead, farm, farmery, farmhold, farmland, farmplace,
      farmstead, farmyard, field, fireplace, fireside, fold, foyer,
      fruit farm, fur farm, grain farm, grange, grassland, ground,
      grounds, hacienda, hearth, hearth and home, hearthstone, home,
      home place, home roof, home sweet home, homecroft, homefarm,
      homestead, honor, house and grounds, house and lot, household,
      ingle, inglenook, ingleside, kibbutz, kolkhoz, land,
      landed property, lands, list, location, lot, lots, mains, manor,
      manor farm, menage, messuage, orchard, pale, paling, parcel, park,
      pasture, paternal roof, pen, place, plantation, plat, plot,
      poultry farm, praedium, property, quad, quadrangle, quadrat, ranch,
      rancheria, rancho, real estate, real property, realty, roof,
      rooftree, sheep farm, square, station, steading, stock farm,
      tenements, theater, truck farm, yard