Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The land within a particular mere or boundary; a farm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Archaic. The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead or farm.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic The
land within theboundaries of afarm ; afarmstead .
Etymologies
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mere + stead (respectively in senses of "boundary" and "place").
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Examples
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Busy with hewing and building, with garden-plot and with merestead, [48]
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School O. J. Stevenson
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