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Someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to to it
Answer for the clue "Someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to to it ", 11 letters:
homesteader
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Word definitions for homesteader in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A pioneer who goes and settles on a homestead.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it [syn: squatter , nester ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Homesteader \Home"stead*er\, n. One who has entered upon a portion of the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner. [Local, U.S.]
Usage examples of homesteader.
The bench on the east side had waited for ages for the homesteader to throw up his log cabin there.
Except on the grades where Logan was forced to walk or trot, the homesteader kept his horse in open gait.
It belonged to the United States government, and until it was claimed by some adventurous homesteader, it was free for anyone to use.
He relaxed the checking pressure on the bit and let the gray dun start down the slope to the hollow where the homesteader was plowing up the virgin sod.
Like his horses, the homesteader was too intent on his work to notice the horse and rider approaching him on the opposite side of the fence.
Benteen Calder wanted to know about the homesteader on the other side of the Triple C boundary.
The homesteader was sending anxious glances at the men on horseback, but he kept the team of horses moving.
The violence that Webb heard below the surface reminded him of the fighting stand the homesteader had been so ready to take.
A picture flashed in his mind of the homesteader girl, Lillian, in her cheap gingham dress and skin that was already browning from the sun.
It was a clever circle the former rancher had drawn, helping the homesteader to find land, selling him the tools to work it, and the lumber for his house.
Webb made a quick identification of the man taking Lillian by the arms as the hostile homesteader, Franz Kreuger.
The homesteader gals were like candy being dangled in front of a boy with a craving for sweets.
Boast and the two homesteaders were talking to Reverend Stuart and Pa about the wheat and oats he intended to raise as soon as he could get his sod broken.
There had also been unusual expenses connected to the acquisition of land, items he did not want to appear on the books, like the train fare for the spurious homesteaders from Elmwood, Illinois.
If Venneford sat by supinely while sheepmen invaded the range, and if they made no protest when immigrants squatted on the outer edges of the ranch and homesteaders took up government land, pretty soon the whole intricate structure would begin to fall apart, the trend would accelerate and a noble way of life would be lost.