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merestone

merestone noun: a stone designating a limit or boundary; a boundary stone.

Noun

merestone (plural merestones)

  1. (England, historical, regional) A stone designating a limit or boundary; a boundary stone.
    • The mislayer of a merestone is to blame1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Judicature”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC
    • Past the mere-stones that marked their turf they strode, with grass stems between their teeth and dandelion seed heads in their hair […].2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 30

Forms of merestone

pluralmerestones

Origin of merestone

From Middle English merestone, merestane, from Old English mǣrstān (“boundary-stone”), equivalent to mere (“boundary”) + stone.

Questions about merestone

What does merestone mean?
Merestone means a stone designating a limit or boundary; a boundary stone.
What part of speech is merestone?
Merestone is a noun.
What is the plural of merestone?
The plural of merestone is merestones.

Words near merestone in the dictionary

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

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