steading

Definitions

Examples

• To live in a steading somewhere, equipped with a reliable well, vegetable patch, fireplace, maybe a wood-fired Aga.

• With her kerchief she flipped into submission the haughty bubbly-jock and drew her father out of the steading.

• She appeared to Ulysses in the steading of Eumœus, the swineherd, as a “woman tall and fair, and skilful in splendid handiwork.”

• The steading is large for the size of the farm, but every steading ought to be made conformable to the farm by the landlord.

• 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.

• Mrs. Lint, however, was little less thankful for Zen's interest than she would have been had their little steading been in danger.