ˈwathstead dial.
Also 7 warstead.
[f. wath + stead n.; cf. Da. vadested.]
A ford.
| 1615 Quarter Sess. Rec. 9 Jan. in N. Riding Rec. (1884) II. 112 [A presentment of] Rob. Spaunton..for digging of a pitt in a wath-stead, called Crooke-holme Wath, whereby men cannot passe. 1691 Ray N.C. Words (ed. 2), Warstead; used in that sense [i.e. a water-ford]. 1877 N.W. Linc. Gloss., Wath, Wath-stead, a ford. |