Definition of "steaded" [steaded]

• Simple past tense and past participle of stead. (verb)

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• "At the edge hereof their way-leader, the sergeant, bade draw rein, and said: Lords, we are now in the lands of the Red Hold, and therein is mickle peril and dread to any save stout hearts as ye be; but meseems we are so steaded, that whatever may come out of the Black Valley of the Greywethers to the Red Hold, ye now may scarce miss."
• "Which since have steaded much; so, of his gentleness,"
• "He steaded his weapon on Tamura as she made a move to unsling her canteen."