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a. (alternative spelling of land grant English)
Usage examples of "land-grant".
Nominally the downs came under the jurisdiction of the archons of Pastedion and Vardeth, who parcelled out land-grants to their supporters at whim, since the hawks and field-mice who lived there never bothered to argue about it.
Independent farmers were created under land-grant schemes, and proved, to no one's surprise, more efficient than forced laborers.
Grant put down his booze and ordered an investigation after the New Mexico Guard sided with land-grabbers out to evict old land-grant families such as your own.
But he's a resident of the state, I'm his daughter, and this is a land-grant college.
The university is the oldest land-grant college west of the Mississippi.
But by this time it had grown into the seat of Larimer County, with a new land-grant college and all.
Since the Lincoln County war and the Land-Grant fights there had been many of his kind in New Mexico, and now there were rumors of trouble building in the Tonto Basin of Arizona.