steading

[ sted-ing ]

/ ˈstɛd ɪŋ /

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noun Scot. and North England.

a farm, especially its buildings.

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Origin of steading

1425–75; late Middle English (north and Scots); see stead, -ing¹

Words nearby steading

stead, steadfast, steadfastly, Steadicam, steadily, steading, steady, steady as a rock, steady-going, steady-handed, steady state

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How to use steading in a sentence

To live in a steading somewhere, equipped with a reliable well, vegetable patch, fireplace, maybe a wood-fired Aga.
A World Without Electricity|Justin Green|January 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST
With her kerchief she flipped into submission the haughty bubbly-jock and drew her father out of the steading.
Corporal Cameron|Ralph Connor
She appeared to Ulysses in the steading of Eumœus, the swineherd, as a “woman tall and fair, and skilful in splendid handiwork.”
Needlework As Art|Marian Alford
The steading is large for the size of the farm, but every steading ought to be made conformable to the farm by the landlord.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, No. 411, January 1850|Various

It is not so easily recognizable a sound as you might think in those great plains cut by islands of high trees and steading walls.
First and Last|H. Belloc
Mrs. Lint, however, was little less thankful for Zen's interest than she would have been had their little steading been in danger.
Dennison Grant|Robert Stead

British Dictionary definitions for steading

steading

/ (ˈstɛdɪŋ) /

noun British

a farmstead

the outbuildings of a farm

Word Origin for steading

C15: from stead + -ing 1

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