'Market cross' definitions:

Definition of 'market cross'

From: WordNet
noun
A cross-shaped monument set up in the marketplace of a town where public business is often conducted

Definition of 'Market cross'

From: GCIDE
  • Market \Mar"ket\, n. [Akin to D. markt, OHG. mark[=a]t, merk[=a]t, G. markt; all fr.L. mercatus trade, market place, fr. mercari, p. p. mercatus, to trade, traffic, merx, mercis, ware, merchandise, prob. akin to merere to deserve, gain, acquire: cf. F. march['e]. See Merit, and cf. Merchant, Mart.]
  • 1. A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of buying and selling (as cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week; a farmers' market. [1913 Webster]
  • He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Three women and a goose make a market. --Old Saying. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large building, where a market is held; a market place or market house; esp., a place where provisions are sold. [1913 Webster]
  • There is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool. --John v. 2. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. An opportunity for selling or buying anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; as, to find a market for one's wares; there is no market for woolen cloths in that region; India is a market for English goods; there are none for sale on the market; the best price on the market. [1913 Webster +PJC]
  • There is a third thing to be considered: how a market can be created for produce, or how production can be limited to the capacities of the market. --J. S. Mill. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth. [1913 Webster]
  • What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Eng. Law) The privelege granted to a town of having a public market. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. A specified group of potential buyers, or a region in which goods may be sold; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; as, the under-30 market; the New Jersey market. [PJC]
  • Note: Market is often used adjectively, or in forming compounds of obvious meaning; as, market basket, market day, market folk, market house, marketman, market place, market price, market rate, market wagon, market woman, and the like. [1913 Webster]
  • Market beater, a swaggering bully; a noisy braggart. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  • Market bell, a bell rung to give notice that buying and selling in a market may begin. [Eng.] --Shak.
  • Market cross, a cross set up where a market is held. --Shak.
  • Market garden, a garden in which vegetables are raised for market.
  • Market gardening, the raising of vegetables for market.
  • Market place, an open square or place in a town where markets or public sales are held.
  • Market town, a town that has the privilege of a stated public market. [1913 Webster]