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workstead

noun

Etymology

From work + stead. Cognate with German Werkstatt (“workshop”), Swedish verkstad (“workshop”).

  1. inherited from *stéh₂tis✻
  2. inherited from *stadiz✻
  3. inherited from stede
  4. inherited from sted
  5. compounded as workstead — “work + stead”

Definitions

  1. Any place, such as a workshop, office, studio, or garage, set up where work can be…

    Any place, such as a workshop, office, studio, or garage, set up where work can be performed; a workstation.

    • As we walked we saw white slags lying together; where perhaps had been the workstead of some ancient artificer.
    • The factors to consider in establishing a computer workstead can be divided into two categories (or perhaps linked to a two-headed monster): the computer's turf and everything else about home-based business.
    • He could feel Edain turning like a hound at a scent as they went by a well-equipped bowyer′s workstead, with rows of recurves hanging to dry inside and billets of ashwood ready to be split and smoothed for arrow shafts.

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