farmsteading

Etymology

noun

  1. (Scotland) A farmstead.
    Fig. 31 is a plan of an existing farmsteading. 1849, Robert Ritchie, The Farm Engineer
    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.

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