steading

English

Etymology

From Middle English steding (“place, farm”), from Middle English stede (“estate, property, holdings”), from Old English stede (“locality, place, site, position, station”).

Noun

steading (plural steadings)

1. A farmhouse and outer buildings such as barns, stables, cattle-sheds, etc.; a farmstead; a homestead, an onstead, an estate.
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     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.

   • 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 2002, David Weber, The Honor of the Queen, Reissue edition (Sci-fi), Baen Books, →ISBN:

     … 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.

Verb

steading

1. present participle and gerund of stead

Anagrams

• sedating