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
Having used precautions against their lodgment in the new steading, under the floors, and on the tops of the party walls, they were effectually banished from the farm.
From Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
I was up with a cousin who was fishing in a mill-lade, and a shower of rain drove me for shelter into a tumble-down steading attached to the mill.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
I told you I should like to convert the present steading at Beechland into a little hamlet of laborers, which we will name Abbotstown.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
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