workstead

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

Noun

  1. 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. - 1888, Charles Montagu Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta:
    • 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,...
    • 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....

    1. A place of employment; workplace.

      • 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...

    2. A laboratory.

Origin

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

Forms

worksteads