marketstead

market-stead, market stead

From market +‎ stead.

marketstead (plural marketsteads)

1. (obsolete) A marketplace.
   • 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 1 p. 44:

     Putting their Vaward on, and their best Archers plac’d
     The Market-sted about, and them so fitly laid.

• “marketstead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.