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单词 onstead
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onsteadn.

Brit. /ˈɒnstɛd/, U.S. /ˈɑnˌstɛd/, Scottish English /ˈɔnstɛd/
Forms: late Middle English ownstede; English regional (northern) 1700s– onstead, 1800s onstid, 1800s onestead (Yorkshire), 1800s– onsteed, 1800s– onesteead (Yorkshire), 1800s– onsteead (Yorkshire); Scottish pre-1700 onsted, pre-1700 onsteid, pre-1700 1700s– onstead, 1800s– onsteed.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: on- prefix, stead n.
Etymology: < on- prefix + stead n. With sense 2 compare earlier onset n.1 N.E.D. (1903) gives the pronunciation as (ǫ·nstėd) /ˈɒnstɪd/.
Now Scottish and English regional (northern).
1. A manor. Obsolete. rare.
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1400 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/275/30) We knowe no man that ȝede out of the this lordschep out of thownstede ne of the schir goyng ne Ridyng that weren atte this viag with the Erl of kent.
2. Scottish and English regional (northern). The farmhouse and other buildings belonging to a farm; a farmstead. Also: spec. the outbuildings on a farm, as distinct from the farmhouse, or the farmhouse, as distinct from the outbuildings. Cf. onset n.1; stead n. 6. Now rare. Sc. National Dict. s.v. records this sense as still in use in southern Scotland in 1964.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmstead > [noun]
towneOE
steading1472
farm-steading1533
onstead1551
farmtown1609
homestead1610
farmstead1753
homesteading1812
werf1818
plaas1834
head station1835
1551 Protocol Bk. Sir W. Corbet (1911) 16 Come to the sam towne of fawnis and to the onsteid and place quhair James Hwym dvellis thair.
1584 Edinb. Test. XIII. f. 195, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Onsted His wyf..sall haif..ane chalmer of the said onsteid.
1629 in S. A. Gillon Sel. Justiciary Cases (1953) I. 108 Anent the burning of Lilias Knowis..hir housses and onsteid.
1662 in C. S. Romanes Sel. Rec. Regality of Melrose (1917) III. 63 That tennement and onsteid of houses with the yaird therto adjacent.
1698 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1823) X. 151/1 [Soldiers] shall not be quartered upon tennents in dispersed onsteads in the countrey.
1715 A. Pennecuik Geogr., Hist. Descr. Tweeddale 25 All the Onsteads upon this Water are in the Parish of Lyne.
1748 Aberdeen Jrnl. 17 May in Sc. National Dict. (1965) VI. 479/3 Alexander Cheyne lately Indweller and Inhabitant in the Village or Onstead at or near the Miln of Macterry in the Parish of Fyrie.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Onstead, a single farm-house. N.
1834 A. Cunningham Life Burns in R. Burns Wks. I. 210 Burns..undertook..to build a complete farm onstead, consisting of dwelling-house, barn, byre, stable and sheds.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 121 Onestead, a single farm-house.
1897 R. M. Calder Poems 93 Frae onsteads near the lads appear.
1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 89/2 Onstead, a single farmstead including the house... A word fallen very much into disuse, but only recently.
1962 H. Orton & W. J. Halliday Surv. Eng. Dial. I. i. 48 Farmstead,..[Northumberland, Durham] on-stead.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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