Noun

(en noun)

a farm-house and offices such as barns, stables, cattle-sheds, etc.; a farmstead; a homestead, an onstead, an estate

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, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=1 citation , passage=They said nothing further, but tramped on in the growing darkness, past farm steadings , into the little village, through the silent churchyard where generations of the Pallisers lay, and up the beech avenue that led to Northrop Hall.}}

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, year=2002 , year_published= , edition=Reissue , editor= , author=David Weber , title=The Honor of the Queen , chapter= , url= , genre=Sci-fi , publisher=Baen Books , isbn=9780743435727 , page= , passage= … authorized the Grant in Organization a new steading' on our southernmost continent. With your permission, we intend to call it the ' Steading of Harrington, and I ask you to assume the office of its Steadholder for yourself and your heirs. }}

Noun

(en noun)

Any of the six administrative districts into which the Isle of Man is divided.