home|stead

home|stead
home|stead «HOHM stehd», noun, verb.
–n.
1. a house with its land and other buildings; farm with its buildings: »

There are many old homesteads in New England.

2. U.S. the public land granted to a settler under certain conditions by the United States government.
3. the place of one's dwelling or home: »

To make the West…The homestead of the free (John Greenleaf Whittier).

4. U.S. a lot and the buildings on it, which the owner and his family occupy as a home and which is legally exempted from seizure or forced sale for debt.
–v.t.
to take up and occupy as a homestead: »

My grandfather homesteaded 160 acres of land.

–v.i.
U.S. to settle on a homestead.
╂[Old English hāmstede]

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