Homestead (Verb)
Meaning
Settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead.
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- The 1862 Homestead Act allowed settlers to claim and homestead up to 160 acres of land for free from the US government.
- Her great-grandfather moved west to homestead the land that had been available under the government's land-grant program.
- After traveling out to the frontier, many pioneers hoped to homestead a small farm where they could raise their families.
- Before the land had been opened up for settlement, millions of acres had been inaccessible to anyone who wanted to homestead there.
- In order to successfully homestead the land, settlers would have to live on it, build a house, and grow crops within a certain number of years.