Definition of "steads" [steads]

• Plural form of stead. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stead. (verb)

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• ""It often falls out that a hawk breaks her wing and train-feathers, so that others must be set in their steads, which is termed ` ymping 'them.""
• "Then waxed Grimhild fell at those words, and spake, “Do even as we bid thee, and take therefore great honour, and our friendship, and the steads withal called Vinbjorg and Valbjorg.”"
• "Depart, therefore, forthright and add not cark to my cark and care to my care, neither do thou pretend to rescue me from this my plight; for who shall carry me to thy country through all these vales and thirsty wolds and fatal steads?"