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Waitsfield

Waitsfield proper noun: a town in Washington County, Vermont, United States.

Proper noun

Waitsfield

  1. A town in Washington County, Vermont, United States.
    • That each proprietor of the Township of Waitsfield aforesaid his heirs or assigns shall plant and cultivate five Acres of Land & build a house at least Eighteen feet square on the floor or have one family settled on each respective right or share of Land in said Township agreeable to the time...1782, Thomas Chittenden, Joseph Fay, “The Charter of Waitsfield”, in Charters Granted by the State of Vermont, volume 2, Bellows Falls: P. H. Gobie Press, published 1922, →OCLC, page 201
    • that said roads, exclusive of a number of other private roads, are much wanted, to facilitate public travel from Burlington, through said towns and gores, to Waitsfield, in a direct way to Windsor, as also from Waitsfield, through Huntington and the Gores to Starksborough, Bristol and Middlebury...1801, A Journal of the General Assembly of the State of Vermont, Bennington: Anthony Haswell, →OCLC, page 216

Origin of Waitsfield

From Wait + -s- + field, named after General Benjamin Wait.

Questions about Waitsfield

What does Waitsfield mean?
Waitsfield means a town in Washington County, Vermont, United States.
What part of speech is Waitsfield?
Waitsfield is a proper noun.

Words near Waitsfield in the dictionary

  1. waits out
  2. waits till the clouds roll by
  3. waits up
  4. waits upon
  5. waits upon hand and foot
  6. Waitsfield
  7. waitstaff
  8. waitstaffs
  9. waitstate
  10. waitstates
  11. Waitt

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