Now only Hist. Also 7 woorth. [OE. worþ (weorþ), wurþ, = OS. wurđ, MLG. wurd, word.] An enclosed place, a homestead.
Except in quot. 1649, only by inference from place-names in which it forms the second element.
1575. Laneham, Lett. (1871), 4. The name … iz called Kenelvvorth. Syns most of the Worths in England stand ny vntoo like lakez [etc.].
1628. Coke, On Litt., 5 b. Worth signifieth a watry place or water.
1649. Deed of Conveyance, Windsor. All those two closes … one … on ye Spittlehill and the other in the Woorth comonly called Margret Acre.
1917. Q. Rev., Oct., 338. Probably the ‘worths’ were farms on clearings made later than the original settlements.
