Definition of "market day" []

• The day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location (noun)

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• "It was Satturday wch is their market day and there was a great Market Like some little ffaire, a great deale of Corne and all sorts of ware and ffowles there."
• "I was there on Satturday wch is their market day and saw they sold their Butter by ye pinte 20 ounces for 6 pence and often for 5d or 4d; they make it up in a Mold just in the shape of a pinte pot and so sell it."
• "A mile or two beyond this Ullswater, – Tuesday is the market day wch was the Day I came thither."