homestead

noun

1. A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.

   “A Yard she had with Pales enclos’d about, / Some high, some low, and a dry Ditch without. / Within this Homestead, liv’d without a Peer, / For crowing loud, the noble Chanticleer:”

   “[…] no sooner has a hen disburdened herself, than she rushes forth with a clamorous kind of joy, which the cock and the rest of his mistresses immediately adopt. The tumult is not confined to the family concerned, but catches from yard to yard, and spreads to every homestead within hearing, till at last the whole village is in an uproar.”

   “It was an important-looking village, with a fine old church and large churchyard in the heart of it, and two or three large brick-and-stone homesteads, with well-walled orchards and ornamental weathercocks, standing close upon the road […]”

   “The preacher lived on his homestead two miles away and it seemed to Laura the longest drive she had ever taken, and yet it was over all too soon.”

2. (Canada, US)A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.

   “He owned exactly six hundred and forty acres of what stretched outside his door; his own original homestead and timber claim, making three hundred and twenty acres, and the half-section adjoining, the homestead of a younger brother who had given up the fight, gone back to Chicago to work in a fancy bakery […]”

3. The place that is one's home.

   “Grief from yeer to yeer / Rents my poor Heart, and makes his Home-stead there:”

4. (South-Africa)A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family.
5. (obsolete)The home or seat of a family; place of origin.

   “Where then wast thou tempted, O Blessed Jesu? or whither wentest thou to meet with our great Adversary? I do not see thee led into the marketplace, or any other part of the City, or thy home-stead of Nazareth, but into the vast Wilderness, the habitation of beasts;”

   “The PETSCHENEGRANS, as they are called in the russian and polish year-books, name themselves Kangar or Kangli, and were a powerful nomadic nation, which we can trace back to a homestead on the rivers Volga and Ural.”

verb

1. (intransitive, transitive)To acquire or settle on land as a homestead.

   “When Samuel and Liza came to the Salinas Valley all the level land was taken, the rich bottoms, the little fertile creases in the hills, the forests, but there was still marginal land to be homesteaded, and in the barren hills, to the east of what is now King City, Samuel Hamilton homesteaded.”

   “He's an old man, Bandy...he homesteaded here. He lives with his grandson...he said he would like to talk to you.”

2. (transitive)To appropriate an unowned, scarce means, and thereby gain ownership of it.

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14. A rural town and locality in Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia.