homestall

 [hohm-stawl]  

home·stall

   [hohm-stawl]
noun British.
1.
Dialect. a farmyard.
2.
Obsolete. a homestead.
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Origin:
before 1000; Middle English homstal, Old English hāmsteall. See home, stall1
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