Definition of "farmsteading"

Fig. 31 is a plan of an existing farmsteading.

1849, Robert Ritchie, The Farm Engineer

All over the countryside, away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light green of the new foliage.

1891-92, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes