Synonyms:
homestead
Meaning: settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead
Usage examples
He asked them to observe Webb's pretty homestead, no longer marred by the unsightly sign upon the barn.
The great dining-room at Hilcrest, the old Spencer homestead, was perhaps the pleasantest room in the house.
Determined to help in the struggle to clear the homestead from debt, they had no alternative but to go into service.
He was compelled almost hourly to wage battles for his location, for there was something fine about the old stag sumac that attracted homestead seekers.
Finally the girls came to the old Copp homestead . . . a place of such exceeding external neatness that even Green Gables would have suffered by contrast.
On the further side of the stream stood a small homestead, having a garden and pig-sties attached; in front of it, beside the brook, three young women were kneeling, with buckets and platters beside them containing heaps of pigs' chitterlings, which they were washing in the running water.