merestead
nounEtymology From mere (“boundary”) + stead (“place”).
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Obsolete The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead.
- All in the village was peace; the men were intent on their labors, / Busy with hewing and building, with garden-plot and with merestead, […]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: