A dated British term for a field immediately adjacent to the owner's dwelling, often used as kitchen garden or close pastureland.
A dated British term for a field immediately adjacent to the owner's dwelling, often used as kitchen garden or close pastureland. The word has a quiet, pastoral register placing it firmly in an older rural England context. Seldom used in contemporary speech; most likely to appear in historical, agricultural, or literary discussions.
He kept a few chickens and a vegetable patch in the homefield behind the farmhouse.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(US, Canada) A specific parcel of land within a larger farm or ranch that is closest to the main residence or homestead buildings.
The place that is one's home.
(UK) Part of a country estate that is farmed by the landowner or an employed farm manager, while most of the estate is rented out to tenant farmers.
(Scotland, Northern England, of farmland) Near or nearest the house.
(UK, dated) A field adjacent to its owner's home.