the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A single farmhouse; a steading.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A farmstead; the buildings on a farm.
Word Usage
"He raised himself from the copestone of the parapet, and solemnly tramped his steady way up to the "onstead" of Craig Ronald, which took shape before him as he advanced like a low, grey-bastioned castle."