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onsteads

onsteads is the plural of onstead.

Meaning of onstead

Noun

onstead (plural onsteads)

  1. (Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal) A single farmhouse; a steading.
    • The farm onsteads on many properties are old, and afford too little accommodation1737, Mr David Wilson, “on the Present State of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire”, in Prize-essays and Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland

Questions about onsteads

What is onsteads the plural of?
Onsteads is the plural of onstead.

Words near onsteads in the dictionary

  1. Onstads
  2. onstaffing
  3. onstaffings
  4. onstage
  5. onstead
  6. onsteads
  7. onstream
  8. Onsu
  9. onsweep
  10. onsweeping
  11. onsweeps

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