"doomstead" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "doomsteads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "doomstead (plural doomsteads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897, The Younger Edda: Also Called Snorre's Edda, Or the Prose Edda, page 73",
          "text": "The third root of ash is in heaven, and beneath it is the most sacred fountain of Urd. Here the gods have their doomstead.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1935, The Earliest Norwegian Laws, page 376",
          "text": "And the plaintiff shall set his doom over against [that of] the defendant after a space of five nights at the proper doomstead, whether he [the defendant] is there or not; and let the doom be set and held and let the men wait till midday. And when the midday is past, the plaintiff shall summon the defendant to a wager doom at the proper doomstead after a space of five nights.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1940, Henry Binkley Stein, Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah, page 63",
          "text": "There were many gardens and many gods with a central home or doomstead where judgment was given to all the gods and where they swore allegiance as mentioned in the story of the island of Poseidon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An Ancient Scandinavian public meeting for passing judgement and making group decisions; thing (public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country)"
      ],
      "id": "en-doomstead-en-noun-Kq~VUxH9",
      "links": [
        [
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          "thing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) An Ancient Scandinavian public meeting for passing judgement and making group decisions; thing (public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "doomstead"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "doomsteads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "doomstead (plural doomsteads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897, The Younger Edda: Also Called Snorre's Edda, Or the Prose Edda, page 73",
          "text": "The third root of ash is in heaven, and beneath it is the most sacred fountain of Urd. Here the gods have their doomstead.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1935, The Earliest Norwegian Laws, page 376",
          "text": "And the plaintiff shall set his doom over against [that of] the defendant after a space of five nights at the proper doomstead, whether he [the defendant] is there or not; and let the doom be set and held and let the men wait till midday. And when the midday is past, the plaintiff shall summon the defendant to a wager doom at the proper doomstead after a space of five nights.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1940, Henry Binkley Stein, Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah, page 63",
          "text": "There were many gardens and many gods with a central home or doomstead where judgment was given to all the gods and where they swore allegiance as mentioned in the story of the island of Poseidon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An Ancient Scandinavian public meeting for passing judgement and making group decisions; thing (public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "thing",
          "thing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) An Ancient Scandinavian public meeting for passing judgement and making group decisions; thing (public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "doomstead"
}