What is "bartons"

Usage examples of "bartons".

He had begun with simple tallies, marked with wheatear, sickle, and flower, but he needed lists of all his people, and their villages, and the bartons and their yeoman marshals.

If they had an army someday, of farmers who had trained in their bartons, they would have to have camps in the field, and those camps would have to have jacks, kitchens, shelters for wounded, space to store supplies.

In the bartons that are safe—if they are safe—only because the men always gather in the bartons.

If he could establish training in the villages, bartons full of trained men—his mind put other women in that picture, and he hastily blanked them out—in time they would outnumber the lords and their guards.

The flow back in, to train those in the bartons… and back out, to the fight they all knew must come, and then back, to take up their peaceful lives.

And if—I don’t mean to be illwishing, but if this doesn’t work—if we find that our neighbors do tell the lords’ men, then better only a few bartons die, than many.

I think myself it would be better if only one in each barton knew the name of the yeoman marshal in other bartons.

As soon as the spring plowing was over, those bartons would be sending elected yeomen marshals to train with the main force.

The first bartons ventured out of their villages to drill with Gird in the fields.

But he sent those he thought would make good teachers and leaders, both to new bartons and to outlaw groups.

Gird and the others agreed on basic rules for drilling bartons together—how far the drillground must be from any village, what kinds of lookouts to set, what the signals would be, and what common commands all bartons should know.

When he thought of gathering all the bartons, in a full army, and meeting the lords with theirs, he was terrified.

The incoming bartons had joined somewhere along the way, and were marching some thirty strong, all in step and clearly proud of themselves.

The other two bartons had made it home safely, and so far their stolen blades had not been discovered.

Gird drove himself and those he knew best, traveling far to meet the yeoman-marshals of other bartons, to speak to those who were not sure, who were afraid.