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mesestead
Forms: α. 6 meastead, mestede, 6–7 meestead, 7–8 measestead, mested. β. 7 misted. γ. 7 meadstead, 7–9 midstead. δ. 7 meerstead, 9 merestead.
[f. mese n.2 + stead n. The γ and δ forms are etymologizing perversions, due to association with mead n. and mere n.2 respectively.]
A messuage.
α1546Yorks. Chantry Surv. (Surtees) I. 179 One mestede in Exthorpe. 1590Crt. Rolls Manor of Dewsbury in N. & Q. 9th Ser. V. 349/2 A messuage or tenement called meestead or the New Walles. 1622MS. Indenture Sir R. Swifte's Estate at Doncaster, All those several meesteads as they now lie unbuilt upon and walled in from the street. c1700De La Pryme Diary (Surtees) 316 A larg map of y⊇ whole parish, having every field, ing, close, mested, croft, cavel, intack, &c...in it. 1714Lond. Gaz. No. 5204/8 A Messuage or Measestead, where a House or Barn formerly stood.
β1633Plymouth Col. Rec. (1855) I. 16 Richard Higgens hath bought of Thomas Little his now dwelling house and misted. Ibid. 18, 24, 45.
γ1637Plymouth Col. Rec. (1855) I. 57 A midstead is graunted to George Russell in the towne of Plymouth. 1640Ibid. 145 Willm Sherman is graunted a meadstead about the Stoney Brooke, in Duxborrow. 1896S. O. Addy in N. & Q. 8th Ser. X. 349 In the township of Royston, near Barnsley, there are eighteen freeholders..known as ‘midstead owners’. Ibid., For more than two centuries the ‘midstead owners’ have kept a book in which their rules and ordinances..have been recorded. Ibid. 470 A certain number of houses were known as ‘midstead houses’.
δc1620Plymouth Col. Rec. XII. 3 The meersteads and garden plotes of [those] which came first. 1858Longfellow M. Standish viii. 4 Busy with hewing and building, with garden-plot and with mere-stead. [1883New Eng. Hist. & Gen. Reg. XXXVII. 277 Peter Brown, whose first house and ‘meerstead’ was on the south side of Leyden Street.] |