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Meanings of homesteader in English

Someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it.

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Examples for "squatter"
Examples for "squatter"
1
As I said in the court-room the squatter trials are but farces.
Tess of the Storm Country
2
We might require him again; so we quartered him upon the squatter.
The Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp Fire
3
With Louis Bachelor the young squatter approached Wandenong homestead in some excitement.
Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 03
4
If I'd stayed there much longer I could have claimed squatter's rights.
The burglar who traded ted williams
5
The squatter's judgment was bad-thatis plain; but his heart was right.
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
1
The nester's horse was in a little corral back of the house.
Mavericks
2
His gaze shifted to the nester and carried with it implacable hostility.
Mavericks
3
But the second shot also hit the old nester in the breast.
Lonesome dove
4
But the reference did not embarrass the nester in the least.
Mavericks
5
The nester pushed her gently into the arms of her guest.
Mavericks
Usage of homesteader in English
1
The dominion of the cowman was giving way to the homesteader.
Cattle Brands: A Collection of Western Camp-Fire Stories
2
A bachelor homesteader had it and they are always the worst.
Land of the Burnt Thigh
3
Being a homesteader and accustomed to going out at night was one thing.
Arcanum Unbounded
4
The homesteader had a long look at the womenfolk before heading for the saloon.
Fresh
5
No homesteader looked forward to doing so, but none shied away from it either.
Arcanum Unbounded
6
A young homesteader rushed into the print shop one day, white as a sheet.
Land of the Burnt Thigh
7
The homesteader gave his whip an exaggerated sweep and cracked it above the horses.
Fresh
8
He had gone out to see a homesteader about doing some work for him.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
9
What about the homesteader or the poorer farmer who is starting on meagre resources?
Deep Furrows
10
He came out here as a homesteader, but the land wasn't much good for farming.
The diary of mattie spenser
11
A homesteader living ten miles out stepped into the land office while we were there.
Land of the Burnt Thigh
12
The bachelor homesteader had left it black with grease.
Land of the Burnt Thigh
13
The line between homesteader and hipster is sometimes a fine one.)
Wired
14
From a homesteader who was proving up and leaving we bought an old wire cot.
Land of the Burnt Thigh
15
The next day a homesteader's little girl was bitten.
Land of the Burnt Thigh
16
Where did the lumber industry get hold of all the knotholes it sold the poor homesteader?
Land of the Burnt Thigh
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