Meanings
plural plestors
- An open space in a village where fairs or markets were held; became village greens.
At the south corner of the plestor, or area, near the church, there stood, about twenty years ago, a very old grotesque hollow pollard-ash, which for ages had been looked on with no small veneration as a Shrew-Ash.
1842, John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, Observations on popular antiquities
Origin
- Old Englishpleġstōw“playground, gymnasium, amphitheater, a place for a play, wrestling-place”
- Middle English*pleystow
- Englishplestor
Alteration of Middle English *pleystow, from Old English pleġstōw (“playground, gymnasium, amphitheater, a place for a play, wrestling-place”). More at playstow.
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