Meaning & use
Onstead
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A farmstead, including its house and outbuildings, chiefly in Scottish usage.
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The old onstead sat at the end of a long track, its barns long since fallen in.
Generations of the same family had worked the onstead since the 1700s.
A note on using this word
A regional Scots term, now rare outside dialect literature and historical farming records.
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