Noun: workstead
| Singular | workstead |
| Plural | worksteads |
Sample Sentences
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As we walked we saw white slags lying together; where perhaps had been the workstead of some ancient artificer. [1888, Charles Montagu Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta:]
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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. [1982, Personal computer:]
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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. [2010, S. M. Stirling, The Sword of the Lady:]
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Today there is a trend back to the old workstead as technology can bring people within sight and sound of each other even though they are hundreds of miles apart. [1999, Betty Neville Michelozzi, Coming Alive from Nine to Five:]
Nouns inflected like workstead
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From work + stead. Cognate with German Werkstatt (“workshop”), Swedish verkstad (“workshop”). See: German Nouns '
Werkstatt', Swedish Nouns '
verkstad'.
Verbs referencing "workstead"
Swedish Nouns
verkstad.