1888, Charles Montagu Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta:
As we walked we saw white slags lying together; where perhaps had been the workstead of some ancient artificer.
1982, Personal computer:
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.
2010, S. M. Stirling, The Sword of the Lady:
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.
1999, Betty Neville Michelozzi, Coming Alive from Nine to Five:
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.