Crossword clues for homestead
homestead
- Pioneer's desire
- Locale for a pioneer family
- The home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family
- Dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land
- ____ Act (1862 measure)
- ___ Act: 1862
- House of station manager receives recycled books
- Tom's worried about centre of guttering in principal country residence
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Homestead \Home"stead\, n. [AS. h[=a]mstede.]
The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it.
--Dryden.-
The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
We can trace them back to a homestead on the Rivers Volga and Ural.
--W. Tooke. -
(Law) The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family. Homestead law.
A law conferring special privileges or exemptions upon owners of homesteads; esp., a law exempting a homestead from attachment or sale under execution for general debts. Such laws, with limitations as to the extent or value of the property, exist in most of the States. Called also homestead exemption law.
Also, a designation of an Act of Congress authorizing and regulating the sale of public lands, in parcels of 160 acres each, to actual settlers. [U.S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 a house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm 2 the place that is one's home 3 (context South Africa English) A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family 4 The home or seat of a family; place of origin. vb. To acquire or settle on land as a homestead.
WordNet
n. the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family
land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law
dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land
v. settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 76
Land area (2000): 0.189633 sq. miles (0.491146 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.189633 sq. miles (0.491146 sq. km)
FIPS code: 32806
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 39.363149 N, 94.198955 W
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Housing Units (2000): 11162
Land area (2000): 14.283740 sq. miles (36.994714 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.093439 sq. miles (0.242005 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 14.377179 sq. miles (37.236719 sq. km)
FIPS code: 32275
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 25.471190 N, 80.468122 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 33030 33031 33033 33035
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Homestead
Housing Units (2000): 2071
Land area (2000): 0.568171 sq. miles (1.471555 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.066692 sq. miles (0.172731 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.634863 sq. miles (1.644286 sq. km)
FIPS code: 35424
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.405069 N, 79.907785 W
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Wikipedia
Homestead or The Homestead may refer to:
__NOTOC__ "Homestead" is the 169th episode of Star Trek: Voyager and the 23rd episode of the seventh season. One of the final episodes of the series, it marks the departure of Neelix from the crew of the Starship Voyager.
A homestead is a dwelling, especially a farmhouse, and adjacent outbuildings, typically on a large agricultural holding such as a ranch or station.
In North America the word "homestead" historically referred to land claimed by a settler or squatter under the Homestead Act (USA) or Dominion Lands Act (Canada). In Old English the term was used to mean a human settlement, and in Southern Africa the term is used for a cluster of several houses normally occupied by a single extended family.
Homestead is a L5 meteorite fallen in 1875 in Iowa, United States.
A homestead is a unit used in US Surveyors' Measure.
Usage examples of "homestead".
Following the precise and neatly written directions Barth had provided, Anna found the Posey homestead without incident.
But when he had reached the Bartram homestead, Saybrook had indulged in sober thought, and now felt a bond of warm friendship toward Hurley Adams.
Despite the fact that he had previously called for the secret purpose of conferring with Mahinda, Doctor Shores now avoided the Bartram homestead.
When the soul in its beautified or spirit body arrived there, the ministers of Osiris took it to the homestead or place of abode which had been allotted to it by the command of Osiris, and there it began its new existence.
She remembered a clear autumn night five years ago when she had led Bounder, docile as a lamb, to the front veranda of the homestead, where the boss sat in a straight-back chair watching her with his unflinching gaze.
She caught Gimme and Bounder, who had found his way back to the homestead after a week in the open, and was saddling them when she saw her uncle approaching.
Behind her she heard the sharp clack of horseshoes against stone and knew that Bounder was on his way back to the homestead.
They reined in at the edge of the paddock, just below the homestead, and walked the horses into the deeper darkness below the outspread branches of the trees.
A tropical scene, luxuriant with tangled overgrowth and impressive in the grandeur of its phenomena, may more decisively arrest our attention than an English landscape with its green corn lands and plenteous homesteads.
I want you to roust Repp Taylor out of his bunk and get him up to The Homestead now!
We all started back again at different angles, our final rendezvous being arranged for the station homestead, the rouseabout taking a direct line, and making for the Little Black Billabong on the way.
Smoke was curling out of the homestead, and as they stared in horror, they saw tiny dark human figures running down the pathway under the spathodea trees, carrying torches of dry, grass.
Where are the children that throve and grew In the old homestead in days gone by?
There was no money in his background, no Adams fortune or elegant Adams homestead like the Boston mansion of John Hancock.
For a year or more, until Susanna Adams was remarried to an older Braintree man named John Hall, she continued to live with her son Peter in the family homestead next door, and the two women grew extremely fond of one another.