Definition of "homekeeping"

Forty years ago, if any aspiring Protheus, conceiving that “home-keeping youths have ever homely wits,” desired to cross the Channel, he had two ways open to him.

1860, The Dublin University Magazine, volume 56, page 678

Nellie was a homekeeping woman, and a trip to Indiana would mean something to her.

1941, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Familiar Faces: Stories of People You Know