dial. Also 7 warstead. [f. WATH + STEAD sb.; 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.
