(n.) A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm.
Example Sentences:
(1) Six chic doubles, all but one with room for an extra bed, are tacked onto an old farmstead.
(2) The dynamics of a small group of people on an isolated farmstead are disrupted by the arrival of a disturbing stranger, who turns out to be uncomfortably familiar."
(3) During recent archaeological excavations in Viking Greenland, specimens of the human flea, Pulex irritans L., and the body louse, Pediculus humanus humanus L., were recovered from several farmsteads.
(4) In southwestern New Jersey during 1986 and 1987, common barn-owls and pigeons were captured on farmsteads and tested for Toxoplasma gondii antibodies by a modified direct agglutination test.
(5) The few hunter-gatherers already living on Orkney were replaced and farmsteads were established across the archipelago.
(6) The distribution range of the tick (percent of infested farmsteads) in this case did not reduce.
(7) They cultivated the land, built farmsteads and rapidly established a vibrant culture, erecting giant stone circles, chambered communal tombs – and a giant complex of buildings at the Ness of Brodgar.
(8) Rattus norvegicus infestations on six farmsteads were poisoned with 0.5% 5-p-chlorophenyl silatrane and those on another six with 2.5% zinc phosphide.
(9) The farm's electrical service was modified so that the farmstead could be connected or disconnected from the primary neutral wire at 2-week intervals for 12 weeks.
(10) In the campo behind Castro Marim, Companhia das Culturas (doubles from €75, Rua do Monte Grande, +351 281 957 062, companhiadas culturas.com ) is a classy, country-chic small hotel in an old farmstead with vintage furniture, a soon-to-be-open hammam and a cork-lined barn for yoga and meditation.
(11) The steep hills on either side and the high mountains beyond are empty of human life, save for the occasional lonely farmstead embedded in the hillside.
(12) High concentrations and variations in Fe and Al in the cheeses indicate a significant possibility of uptake of these elements into the products during farmstead manufacturing processes.
(13) "The sprawling infrastructure of the housing masterplan, with houses, roads, gardens, link paths and car parking, will severely erode a large part of the green farmstead setting which is an integral part of Old Oswestry's appeal."
(14) Here, German émigré Eckhard Kost has built a quirky desert garden around an old farmstead, now a B&B – El Jardín de los Sueños , which means garden of dreams (doubles from €76).
(15) The wildlife service said the lions killed four goats at a small farmstead in the township of Kitengela, about 18 miles south of the capital.
(16) Fifteen experimental treatments with rodenticidal baits containing 0.1, 0.15 or 0.2% flupropadine were conducted on farmsteads against Rattus norvegicus infestations.
(17) Small fields of bright green grass enclosed by hedges, the farmstead and a cottage or two that are typical of counties as distant as Cheshire and Pembroke, Cornwall and Fife, owe their existence to the family dairy farm.
Homestead
Definition:
(n.) The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it.
(n.) The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
(n.) The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was the tragedy that established Bridge Farm as the most woebegone of Archers homesteads.
(2) As well as sparking a novel, Merrill's caress further initiated Forster into the comradely haven of his and Carpenter's rural domesticity: a Derbyshire homestead, safe from public scrutiny.
(3) In the afternoons, tiny boys somehow ride adult bicycles, weaving along the tentacle paths that connect the homesteads.
(4) As our bus drives past, radiation levels inside surge to 61 microsieverts an hour (compared to the typical Japanese average of 0.34 microsieverts).Elsewhere inside the exclusion zone, at least 1,000 cattle are roaming wild after escaping from their farm homesteads, according to local authorities.
(5) She argued that the proposed laws had been "tabled within the context of a revived securocrat state", noting the secrecy around the Marikana mine massacre and use of public funds on Zuma's homestead.
(6) The EFF claims that the ANC has sold its revolutionary soul to "white monopoly capital" and that serial corruption scandals, notably the spending of £13.7m on president Jacob Zuma's homestead in Nkandla , show its contempt for the poor.
(7) The sprawling homestead is a jarring sight in one of the world's most unequal societies.
(8) He had been raised in a remote campesino homestead on the far side of the valley, and the trail we were on – a round trip of 40 miles, including a total ascent of 10,000ft – had been his weekly walk to primary school.
(9) Karen Nicoletto, 49, who was walking her dogs past Harris's former homestead, said the plaque outside his childhood home should stay.
(10) Zuma cast his vote in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal province, where a scandal over the spending of taxpayer millions on security upgrades at his homestead did not prevent crowds greeting him enthusiastically and ululating.
(11) "There were issues that had called for security, particularly in my homestead," he elaborated.
(12) In a measure of the importance of the event for the government, the opening ceremony at the tiny homestead museum was simultaneously translated into five languages and streamed to Polish embassies in 17 countries.
(13) A search for Glossina fuscipes fuscipes puparia near homesteads in the sleeping sickness focus of Busoga revealed puparia and puparial shells under Coffea canephora (coffee), Musa sp.
(14) Thirty-nine of the 77 Rett females were traced to 9 small and separate rural areas, and 17 pairs even came from the same farm or homestead.
(15) Yet 2bn rand will be spent on a multi-purpose centre a few kilometres away from President Zuma's homestead."
(16) A motorcyclist wearing a Scream mask pierced the deceptive calm outside the murdered Eugene Terre'Blanche 's homestead near Venterdsorp this afternoon.
(17) The row comes with the president, a Zulu traditionalist with four wives and 21 children, still trying to shrug off a scandal over the spending of taxpayer millions on upgrades at his family homestead.
(18) Speaking at the Humans to Mars conference in Washington last month, Nasa chief Charles Bolden laid out a vision for bringing the US space programme out of its first stage, exploration, and into pioneering, even homesteading.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Uptown, Jerry Seinfeld spent the year performing his monthly Homestead show, and reminding everyone why he became the most famous comedian in the world – absolutely nobody does observational comedy better .
(20) The xylem sap of nitrogen-fixing Pisum Sativum cv Homesteader has been examined by capillary gas chromatography and by gas chromatography mass spectrometry in both electron-impact and chemical ionization modes following the formation of N-heptafluorobutyryl isobutyl ester derivatives.