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steed

noun
/stiːd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English stede (“steed”), from Old English stēda (“stallion, stud”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōdijō; (compare Old Dutch stoti (“herd of horses”), Old High German stuot (“herd of horses”)).

  1. inherited from *stōdijō✻
  2. inherited from stēda — “stallion, stud”
  3. inherited from stede — “steed”
  4. inherited from stede

Definitions

  1. A stallion, especially one used for riding.

    • The torch-eyed ſavage, with growl tremendous, riſing up, diſlocated at one blow the arched neck of Sadit's Arabian ſteed, and brought the unfortunate omrah to the duſt, expiring between his extended claws.

  2. A bicycle or other vehicle.

    • She was to creep out quietly […] and meet me at our usual trysting place—a spot a few hundred yards from our respective abodes. I would be there with my iron steed, and on the pillion thereof would whirl her into fairyland.

  3. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

barbel steed, Saxon steed, steedless, steedlike

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for steed. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA