merestone

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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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