Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for STEAD, or STED
STEAD, or STED, n.2
In names of places distant from a river or the sea, signifies place, as above; but in names of places situated on a river or harbor, it is from Sax. stathe, border, bank, shore. Both words perhaps are from one root.
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