"merestead" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From mere (“boundary”) + stead (“place”).",
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    {
      "form": "meresteads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1858 October 16, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, stanza VIII (The Spinning-Wheel), page 95:",
          "text": "All in the village was peace; the men were intent on their labors, / Busy with hewing and building, with garden-plot and with merestead, […]",
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        "The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead."
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          "farm",
          "farm#Noun"
        ],
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          "farmstead",
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        "(obsolete) The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead."
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  "word": "merestead"
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  "etymology_text": "From mere (“boundary”) + stead (“place”).",
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        "(obsolete) The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead."
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  "word": "merestead"
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