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meresteads

meresteads is the plural of merestead.

Meaning of merestead

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...

Questions about meresteads

What is meresteads the plural of?
Meresteads is the plural of merestead.

Words near meresteads in the dictionary

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

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