steading
Americannoun
noun
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a farmstead
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the outbuildings of a farm
Etymology
Origin of steading
1425–75; late Middle English (north and Scots); see stead, -ing 1
Example Sentences
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When he had done, he left the place and turned back to his steading in the hills.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
They would have rolled him in the dust and torn him there by his own steading if the swineherd had not sprung up and flung his leather down, making a beeline for the open.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
I would not be well away from one steading, when a messenger would meet me with intelligence of some disaster at the other.
From Cattle and Cattle-breeders by William M'Combie
But the house nearest to Ransey’s was some distance across the fields yonder—an old-fashioned brick farm-building with a steading behind it, every bit of it green with age.
From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Gordon Stables
A dozen Belgian mounted infantrymen dashed up the road, leapt the low wall of the farm steading, and shouted to them to surrender.
From A Hero of Li?ge by Herbert Strang
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