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cheapstead

noun

Etymology

From cheap (“purchase, business, market”) + stead (“place”), probably a translation of Old Norse kaupstaðr (“marketplace”). Compare Icelandic kaupstaður (“market town”), Swedish köpstad (“market town”), Old English ċēapstōw (“marketplace”).

  1. inherited from *stéh₂tis✻
  2. inherited from *stadiz✻
  3. inherited from stede
  4. inherited from sted
  5. compounded as cheapstead — “cheap + stead”

Definitions

  1. A marketplace.

    • […] three weeks of winter were employed in butchering, and more than an acre of field surrounding the cheapstead at Housewick was covered with knots of men and women decapitating and flaying their flocks.
    • Sleet showers continued until we reached the cheapstead of Akureyri (Acre Beach), at the south end of the fjord.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA