Hōme'stall or Hōme'stēad, n.
n. 1. The place of a mansion-house; the inclosure or ground immediately connected with the mansion. Dryden.
Sense 2. The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
We can trace them back to a homestead on the Rivers Volga and Ural. Toole.
Sense 3. (Law.) A person's dwelling-place, with that part of his landed property which is about and contiguous to it. Parker.