marketstead
English
Etymology
market + stead
Noun
marketstead (plural marketsteads)
- (obsolete) A marketplace.
- 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 1 p. 44:
- Putting their Vaward on, and their best Archers plac’d
- The Market-sted about, and them so fitly laid.
- 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 1 p. 44:
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for marketstead in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)