mear

Noun (1)

mere (plural meres)

1. Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line.
   • The Troian Brute did first that Citie found, / And Hygate made the meare thereof by West, / And Ouert gate by North: that is the bound / Toward the land; two riuers bound the rest.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Noun (2)

mere (plural meres)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of sea, a large body of salt water.

   Synonyms:

   sea

2. (obsolete) Synonym of inlet, an arm of the sea.

   Synonyms:

   inlet

3. (UK, dialectal, literary) A body of standing water, inclusive of lakes, ponds, and pools, especially any broad and shallow one.
   • When making for the Brooke, the Falkoner doth espie
     On River, Plash, or Mere, where store of Fowle doth lye:1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 20 p. 16
4. (UK, dialectal) Synonym of marsh.
   • Cully Barnaby: Right to roam, Dad. She has got a point.
     DCI Tom Barnaby: But it's a mere. Who'd want to walk across a mere?1999 September 12, Anthony Horowitz et al., “Dead Man's Eleven”, in Midsomer Murders

   Synonyms:

   marsh

Noun (3)

mere (plural meres)

1. A Maori war-club.
   • As Owen prepared to dismiss the matter, Rule produced something that really caught the great man's eye – a greenstone mere, the warclub of the Maori.2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 41

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