Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HOME'STALL, or HOME'STEAD, n.

1. The place of a mansion house; the inclosure or ground immediately connected with the mansion. Dryden.
2. Native seat; original station or place of residence. We can trace them back to a homestead on the rivers Volga and Ural. Tooke. [In the United States, homestead is the word used.]