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An old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab
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merestone
Word definitions for merestone in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab [syn: meerestone , mearstone ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Merestone \Mere"stone`\, n. A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark. --Bacon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"stone serving as a landmark," Old English mærstan "boundary stone," from mære "boundary, object indicating a boundary," from Proto-Germanic *mairjo- (cognates: Middle Dutch mere "boundary mark, stake," Old Norse -mæri "boundary, border-land"), related ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Merestone , also known as the John S. Reese, IV, House, is a historic estate located in New Garden Township , Chester County, Pennsylvania , and New Castle County, Delaware , spanning the border of the two states. The estate consists of the Merestone House, ...
Usage examples of merestone.
Barren Ford, taking the moody Blackflood River at its least treacherous point, and swung south to the Western Tangent, eventually passing the giant merestone that Springbuck and the other renegades had left behind them long weeks before.
The merestone, marking the purview of Freegate, had engraved on its surface facing them a raised fist bearing a shattered chain.
At the merestone that marked the boundary of Coramonde, they came to the first foreign border.