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Definition of Homesteader
1. Noun. Someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it.
Definition of Homesteader
1. 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.
Definition of Homesteader
1. Noun. A pioneer who goes and settles on a homestead. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Homesteader
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Homesteader
1. 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homesteader
Literary usage of Homesteader
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"488); that there is no express prohibition on alienation by a homesteader, or a
forfeiture for such alienation; that the only thing which stands in the way ..."
2. The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West by Emerson Hough (1918)
"... CHAPTER IX THE homesteader His name was usually Nester or Little Fellow.
It was the old story of the tortoise and the hare. The Little Fellow was from ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1909)
"420, 2 XW 648, that a homesteader upon public lands makes his entry thereon
subject to be defeated, before he earns his patent, by the construction of n ..."
4. Pioneer Tales of the Oregon Trail and of Jefferson County by Charles Dawson (1912)
"DANIEL FREEMAN, THE FIRST homesteader. Daniel Freeman, of Gage county, has the
distinction of being the first homesteader in the United States, riling entry ..."
5. Great Companions by Edith Wyatt (1917)
"THE LETTERS OF A WOMAN homesteader IN the lucent atmosphere of M. Remain Rol- land's
... homesteader."
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