merestead

English

Etymology

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

Noun

merestead (plural meresteads)

1. (obsolete) The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead.
   • 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 Spinning-Wheel), page 95:

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

References

• “merestead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• steamered