Steading

Quick meaning: Steading is a noun meaning A farmhouse and outer buildings such as barns, stables, cattle-sheds, etc.; a farmstead; a homestead, an onstead, an estate.

Meaning

A farmhouse and outer buildings such as barns, stables, cattle-sheds, etc.; a farmstead; a homestead, an onstead, an estate.

More Meanings

1. present participle and gerund of stead

Example Sentences

Alone with his longing, he lies down on his bed and sings a lament; everything seems too large, the steadings and the fields.

They said nothing further, but tramped on in the growing darkness, past farm steadings, into the little village, through the silent churchyard where generations of the Pallisers lay, and up the beech avenue that led to Northrop Hall.

She never seemed to want for siller; the house was as bright as a new preen, the yaird better delved than the manse garden; and there was routh of fowls and doos about the small steading, forbye a wheen sheep and milk-kye in the fields.

… authorized the Grant in Organization a new steading on our southernmost continent. With your permission, we intend to call it the Steading of Harrington, and I ask you to assume the office of its Steadholder for yourself and your heirs.

Word Forms

• steadings

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include place, position, lieu, farmplace, stabling, farmstead.

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