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cheapsteads

cheapsteads is the plural of cheapstead.

Meaning of cheapstead

Noun

cheapstead (plural cheapsteads)

  1. (historical, rare) A marketplace.
    • […] three weeks of winter were employed in butchering, and more than an acre of field surrounding the cheapstead at Housewick was covered with knots of men and women decapitating and flaying their flocks.1879, Charles George Warnford Lock, Clement le Neve Foster, The home of the Eddas

Questions about cheapsteads

What is cheapsteads the plural of?
Cheapsteads is the plural of cheapstead.

Words near cheapsteads in the dictionary

  1. cheapshots
  2. Cheapside
  3. cheapskate
  4. cheapskates
  5. cheapstead
  6. cheapsteads
  7. cheapster
  8. cheapsters
  9. cheapy
  10. chear
  11. cheare

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