noonstead

English

Etymology

From noon +‎ stead.

Noun

noonstead (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The position of the sun at midday.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 1 p. 5:

     With all our sister Nymphes, that to the noone-sted looke,

   • 1616, William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, The Second Booke, the First Song, page 9:

     Long on the shore, distrest Marina lay:
     For he that ope's the pleasant sweets of May
     Beyond the Noon-stead so farre droue his teame,

References

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