farmsteading
nounEtymology From farm + steading.
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Scotland A farmstead.
- Fig. 31 is a plan of an existing farmsteading.1849, Robert Ritchie, The Farm Engineer:
- 1891-92, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes All over the countryside, away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light green of the new foliage.
- Related terms
- farmstead