farmsteading

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English[edit]

Noun[edit]

farmsteading (plural farmsteadings)

  1. (Scotland) A farmstead.
    • 1849, Robert Ritchie, The Farm Engineer:
      Fig. 31 is a plan of an existing farmsteading.
    • 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.
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=farmsteading&oldid=59021802"