steading

Meanings

Noun

• A farmhouse and outer buildings such as barns, stables, cattle-sheds, etc.; a farmstead; a homestead, an onstead, an estate.
• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, steading
• Merriam-Webster, steading
• Middle English Dictionary, stede--->

Verb

• Present participle of stead

Origin

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