Merestead

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead. obsolete

    "All in the village was peace; the men were intent on their labors, / Busy with hewing and building, with garden-plot and with merestead, […]"

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"All in the village was peace; the men were intent on their labors, / Busy with hewing and building, with garden-plot and with merestead, […]"

Etymology

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

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