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v. Simple past tense and past participle of stead.

"At the edge hereof their way-leader, the sergeant, bade draw rein, and said: Lords, we are now in the lands of the Red Hold, and therein is mickle peril and dread to any save stout hearts as ye be; but meseems we are so steaded, that whatever may come out of the Black Valley of the Greywethers to the Red Hold, ye now may scarce miss."

to do stead   

steaded    steading    steads   

office    rôle    part    function   

stead of    to do stead    to stand in stead   

behalf   

in good stead    in one's stead    instead    bedstead    homestead   

bedstead    help    support    benefit    assist   

Ed    Fed    Fred    Freda    Ged   

abstracto    surprise    apposition    dancing    doing