"merestone" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "merestone"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English merestone",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "mǣrstān",
        "t": "boundary-stone"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English mǣrstān (“boundary-stone”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mere",
        "3": "stone",
        "t1": "boundary"
      },
      "expansion": "mere (“boundary”) + stone",
      "name": "com"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English merestone, merestane, from Old English mǣrstān (“boundary-stone”), equivalent to mere (“boundary”) + stone.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "merestones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "merestone (plural merestones)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Regional English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Judicature”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The mislayer of a merestone is to blame",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 30:",
          "text": "Past the mere-stones that marked their turf they strode, with grass stems between their teeth and dandelion seed heads in their hair […].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A stone designating a limit or boundary; a boundary stone."
      ],
      "id": "en-merestone-en-noun-Y97iVoj~",
      "links": [
        [
          "regional",
          "regional#English"
        ],
        [
          "stone",
          "stone"
        ],
        [
          "limit",
          "limit"
        ],
        [
          "boundary",
          "boundary"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(England, regional, now historical) A stone designating a limit or boundary; a boundary stone."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "England",
        "historical",
        "regional"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "merestone"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "merestone"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English merestone",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "mǣrstān",
        "t": "boundary-stone"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English mǣrstān (“boundary-stone”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mere",
        "3": "stone",
        "t1": "boundary"
      },
      "expansion": "mere (“boundary”) + stone",
      "name": "com"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English merestone, merestane, from Old English mǣrstān (“boundary-stone”), equivalent to mere (“boundary”) + stone.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "merestones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "merestone (plural merestones)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English English",
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms derived from Old English",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms inherited from Old English",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Regional English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Judicature”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The mislayer of a merestone is to blame",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 30:",
          "text": "Past the mere-stones that marked their turf they strode, with grass stems between their teeth and dandelion seed heads in their hair […].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A stone designating a limit or boundary; a boundary stone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "regional",
          "regional#English"
        ],
        [
          "stone",
          "stone"
        ],
        [
          "limit",
          "limit"
        ],
        [
          "boundary",
          "boundary"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(England, regional, now historical) A stone designating a limit or boundary; a boundary stone."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "England",
        "historical",
        "regional"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "merestone"
}