noonstead en · NOUN
Etymology
From noon + stead.
Meanings
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(obsolete, uncountable) The position of the sun at midday.
With all our sister Nymphes, that to the noone-sted looke,
1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 1 p. 5:Long on the shore, distrest Marina lay: For he that ope's the pleasant sweets of May Beyond the Noon-stead so farre droue his teame,
1616, William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, The Second Booke, the First Song, page 9: