Crossword clues for merestone
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Merestone \Mere"stone`\, n.
A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark.
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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 to Latin murus "wall" (see mural). Hence also meresman "man appointed to find boundaries" (of a parish, etc.).
Wiktionary
n. A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark.
WordNet
n. an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab [syn: meerestone, mearstone]
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, guest house / garage, milk house, and stone shed.
It was renovated and added to by noted architect R. Brognard Okie in the Colonial Revival style. The original log section of Merestone House dates to between about 1720 and 1734. It is a two-story, three bay, structure measuring 20 feet by 24 feet. A two-story, two bay, frame addition was built between 1725 and 1750 and measures 19 feet by 18 feet. A two-story, one bay, wing was added between about 1802 and 1806. The house was renovated in the Colonial Revival style in 1941-1942. At the same time, Okie built the 1 1/2-story, three bay, frame guest house / garage on the stone foundations of a barn dated to 1806.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
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.