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noun (literary) a spirited horse for state or war
originInherited from Middle English stede (“steed”), from Old English stēda (“stallion, stud”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōdijō; (compare Old Dutch stoti (“herd of horses”), Old High German stuot (“herd of horses”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0