Obs. exc. dial. [? same word as prec.] A small farm-holding.
1602. Carew, Cornwall, 37 a. A farme, or (as wee call it) a bargaine can no sooner fall in hand, then the Survey Court shall be waited on.
1824. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 81. What used to be called in this part of the country ‘a little bargain’: thirty or forty acres, perhaps, of arable land, which the owner and his sons cultivated themselves.
1881. I. Wight Gloss. Bargun … a farm of small holding.
