merestone

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English merestone, merestane, from Old English mǣrstān (boundary-stone), equivalent to mere (boundary) +‎ stone.

Noun

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merestone (plural merestones)

  1. (England, regional, now historical) A stone designating a limit or boundary; a boundary stone. [from 10th c.]
    • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Judicature”, in The Essayes [], 3rd edition, London: [] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
      The mislayer of a merestone is to blame
    • 2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 30:
      Past the mere-stones that marked their turf they strode, with grass stems between their teeth and dandelion seed heads in their hair [] .

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