Synonyms:
squatter
Meaning: someone who settles on land without right or title
Synonyms:
squatter, homesteader, nester
Meaning: someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it
Usage examples
Here and there old trees had been felled the autumn before; or a squatter's roughly-built and decaying cottage had disappeared.
At the back of the clearing, beneath a solitary white birch tree just bursting into green, stood a squatter's log cabin, long deserted, its door and window gone, its roof of poles and bark half fallen in.