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Definition of Onsteads
1. onstead [n] - See also: onstead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Onsteads
Literary usage of Onsteads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive View of the County of by Eneas Mackenzie (1825)
"In these onsteads the farmers reside like the feudal barons of old, surrounded
by then- ... Immediately adjoining the onsteads are a number of cottages, ..."
2. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"The farms in Northumberland are of considerable extent, and the farm-houses (or
onsteads, as they are called) are scattered over the face of the country at ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"In these onsteads the farmer resides like the feudal barons of old, surrounded
by their vassals and dependents."—Mackenzie, History of Northumberland, 1825, ..."
4. The New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845)
"... and there are numerous other small schools among the remote onsteads and
cottage groups, sometimes established by the/teacher himself on a speculation, ..."
5. America as I Found it by Mary Grey Lundie Duncan (1852)
"... surpassed for accuracy of line in a Northumberland or Roxburghshire ploughing-
match—you can count their convenient farm-houses and onsteads, for miles, ..."
6. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1856)
"Out of 28 onsteads I have lately examined, 21 were reported upon as requiring
alteration and repair. The chief alterations which have been adopted in modern ..."
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