steading

Examples

• All

• Once a trader had come to our steading from that land, bringing honey, spices, and vibrant-hued silks.

  Fiction book (1993)

• The family worked hard to maintain their steading, which included a barn and several fields.

• I put away the thought and turned to survey this steading.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Before, she had been south of Re, near my father's steading.

  Fiction book (1993)

• And winter had come earlier here, for snow cloaked the steading and fields.

  Fiction book (1993)

• My first suitor asked me to show him the hills above the steading.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Walking through the steading with Skava, I marked a change in the way folk regarded me.

  Fiction book (1993)

• "A maid of your station does not go flitting about the steading like a scullery girl."

  Fiction book (1993)

• Never since my grandfather's youth had a king's knarr put in at our steading.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Rath and his mother had escaped to the king's steading, where his mother became a favorite of the king's older sister, Gudjen.

  Fiction book (1993)

Synonyms

C

croft

vssteading

• UK

7 8.6

A small farm in Scotland with a house and land

is larger and not limited to rented small holdings and used across regions

F

farmstead

vssteading

3 4.8

The main group of buildings on a farm and the land around them

covers the whole working property including buildings and land often used in northern Britain

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology