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Empty ___ (one whose kids have moved out)
Answer for the clue "Empty ___ (one whose kids have moved out) ", 6 letters:
nester
Alternative clues for the word nester
Word definitions for nester in dictionaries
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it [syn: squatter , homesteader ] a bird that has built (or is building) a nest
Usage examples of nester.
Then sodbusters and nesters came and the days of the cattle barons were over.
The big outfits were warring against the nesters and Payt was the warring kind, as were all the Durbin punchers.
He should be out patrolling the streets, keeping death-starved strigs and nesters in line.
Men strolled by and a heavy-weighted freighter growled outward from Prairie with a load of barbwire for the nesters newly settling the Silver Bow.
Then sodbusters and nesters came and the days of the cattle barons were over.
He'd meant what he'd said to that kid back there about fancy dairy breeds and one more strand of new Glidden Brand bobwire than most nesters strung.
Then nesters began to boil out of Doan's Store--it seemed there were twenty or thirty of them.