steading

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On t' other side frae our steading were a cove that fowks called Janet's Cove.

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  1. A farm-house and offices—that is, barns, stables, cattle-sheds, etc.; a farmstead; a homestead. [North. Eng. and Scotch.]

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  • It was nearing nightfall when we reaching the steading, our shadows stretching long and black before us across the deep snows. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
  • Would that I'd had a map in those days, to mark our place in the steading, and the meeting-place decreed by Waldemar Selig. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
  • Twenty thanes would go with him to represent the steading, and Hedwig and three others, to speak for the women. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
  • Joscelin and I had been oddities among the folk of Gunter's steading, who dwelt a day's ride from the D'Angeline border. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
  • "You brought beauty to my steading, child," she said. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
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