| 释义 |
onstead Sc. and north. dial.|ˈɒnstɪd|
[f. on- + stead, place, station, place of occupation. Cf. onset n.2, which was app. in earlier use.]
A farm-house with its attached stables, cowsheds, and other offices, a farmstead; now sometimes spec. the offices, as distinct from the farmer's house.
1715Pennecuik Tweeddale 25 All the Onsteads upon this Water are in the Parish of Lyne. 1787Grose Prov. Gloss., Onstead, a single farm-house. N. 1816Scott Bl. Dwarf xviii, He..built in its stead a high narrow ‘onstead’ of three stories, with a chimney at each end. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Onstead, Onstid, the buildings on a farm—a station or stay near the house for cattle or stacks. 1834Cunningham Life Burns (1850) 80/1 Burns..undertook..to build a complete farm onstead, consisting of dwelling⁓house, barn, byre, stable and sheds. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 95 A pleasant onstead with a good farm-house roofed with slates, with houses for servants, with stables and byres. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Onestead, a single farm-house. |