steading /stedˈing/

The range of buildings surrounding a farmhouse, a farmstead

stead /sted/

1. The place, function, role or position of another, as in act in someone's stead
2. Service, avail, advantage, as in stand someone in good stead to be advantageous to someone
3. A space of time (Spenser)
4. Circumstances, case, condition (Spenser)

1. To avail, help, serve (archaic)
2. To fulfil in substitution (Shakespeare steed up)

• decade
• decadence
• decadences
• decadencies
• decadency
• decadent
• decadently
• decadents
• decades
• decads
• decaf
• court of cassation
• Court of Common Bench
• Court of Common Pleas
• Court of Conscience
• Court of Criminal Appeal
• Court of Dusty Feet
• Court of Exchequer
• Court of Faculties
• court of first instance
• Court of Honour
• Court of Piepowder
• Court of Piepowders
• court of record
• Court of Requests