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merestead

merestead noun: the land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead.

Noun

merestead (plural meresteads)

  1. (obsolete) The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead.
    • All in the village was peace; the men were intent on their labors, / Busy with hewing and building, with garden-plot and with merestead, […]1858 October 16, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, stanza VIII (The...

Forms of merestead

pluralmeresteads

Origin of merestead

From mere (“boundary”) + stead (“place”).

Questions about merestead

What does merestead mean?
Merestead means the land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead.
What part of speech is merestead?
Merestead is a noun.
What is the plural of merestead?
The plural of merestead is meresteads.

Words near merestead in the dictionary

  1. meresman
  2. meresmen
  3. merest
  4. merestake
  5. merestakes
  6. merestead
  7. meresteads
  8. merestone
  9. merestones
  10. mereswine
  11. mereswines

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