Meanings
nounmarketstead (plural marketsteads)
plural marketsteads
- obsoleteA marketplace.
Putting their Vaward on, and their best Archers plac’d The Market-sted about, and them so fitly laid.
1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 1 p. 44
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