TOFT

C®° TOFT. A local termination. A. Sax. tofte, a little home field, or homestead. Bos worth. A piece of ground where there hath been a house. Camden. Open ground ; a plaim; a hill. Halliwell. " He hath neither toft nor croft," was an old proverbial saying, to signify that a man had no lauded possessions.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.