toft

noun

A homestead.

noun

A hillock.

noun

A grove of trees.

noun

A hillock; a slightly elevated and exposed site; open ground.

noun

A messuage; a house and homestead. Also toftstead.

noun

In English common law:

noun

A messuage the tenant of which is entitled by virtue of it to rights of common in other land in the parish or district.

noun

A piece of ground on which a messuage formerly stood, and which, though the messuage be gone to decay, is still called by a name indicating something more than mere land.

noun

A knoll or hill.

noun

A grove of trees; also, a plain.