Definition of "steading" [stead•ing]

• A farm-house and offices such as barns, stables, cattle-sheds, etc.; a farmstead; a homestead, an onstead, an estate (noun)
• Present participle of stead. (verb)

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