noun. A house, especially a farmhouse, with adjoining buildings and land.

noun. Property qualifying as a person's home under certain laws, such as laws providing tax abatements and exemptions, survivorship rights for spouse and children, and immunity from claims of creditors.

noun. Land claimed by a settler or squatter, especially under the Homestead Act.

noun. The place where one's home is.

intransitive verb. To settle and farm land, especially under the Homestead Act.

intransitive verb. To claim and settle (land) as a homestead.

To acquire as one's established homestead or residence.

noun. A family's dwelling-place, with the inclosure or ground immediately contiguous; an abode; a home.

noun. In law, real property owned by the head of a family and occupied by the family as a home.

noun. Native seat; station or place of residence.

noun. Same as Homestead Act.

noun. The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it.

noun. The home or seat of a family; place of origin.

noun. The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family.

noun. Also, a designation of an Act of Congress authorizing and regulating the sale of public lands, in parcels of 160 acres each, to actual settlers.

noun. a house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm

noun. the place that is one's home

noun. A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family

verb. To acquire or settle on land as a homestead.

noun. land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law

verb. settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead

noun. the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family

noun. dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land

"These are what I called "homestead crafts" because they were similar to things we did in homestead days."

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