[f. FARM sb.2 + STEAD.] A farm with the buildings upon it, a homestead. Also attrib.
1807. G. Chalmers, Caledonia, I. III. vii. 401, note. There is in the parish of Monikie a farmstead named Camus-ton.
1870. Ramsay, Remin., vi. (ed. 18), 203. Mr. Dunlop walked a little farther on, and passed a farm-stead, where a servant was driving out a number of swine, and banning them with ‘Deevil tak them’!
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., III. IV. 88.
| The raven hanging o’er the farmstead gate, | |
| While for another death his eye doth wait, | |
| Hears but the muffled sound of crowded byre | |
| And winds’ moan round the wall. |
