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barton

Farming
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A farmyard or group of farm buildings, especially in older English usage.

Detailed Definition
A “barton” traditionally means a farmyard, farmstead, or the buildings belonging to a farm. Hardy places the imagined oxen in a secluded rural farm setting through this archaic agricultural word.
Example
Example in poetry:
“In the lonely barton by yonder coomb / Our childhood used to know” uses barton in a farming landscape beside a coomb, or small valley; Hardy’s rural settings often bind memory to fields, lanes, and farm buildings; a barton may include yards, barns, livestock, and the labor that sustains them; contemporary pastoral poetry can use it to explore changing agriculture, abandonment, or inherited land
Additional Notes
The quoted word “barton” is an archaic rural term rather than a familiar modern word for a farmstead.; Found in the poem, The Oxen by Thomas Hardy
Other Meanings of “barton”
Also Known As
farmstead estate homestead
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