To make a noise like a flock of wild fowl flapping their wings against or through the water.

To plunge into or through water.

noun. One who or that which squats.

noun. One who settles on new land, particularly on public land, without a title.

noun. Hence One who or that which assumes domiciliary rights without a title.

noun. One who obtains from the government a right of pasturage on moderate terms; also, any stock-owner.

noun. In ornithology, same as krieker.

noun. One who squats

noun. See Squat snipe, under Squat.

noun. the right claimed by the squatters, or actual residents, of a Territory of the United States to make their own laws.

noun. One who squats, sits down idly.

noun. A large-scale grazier and landowner.

noun. someone who settles on land without right or title

noun. someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it

"More than 1.3 million Haitians live in squatter camps, facing disgruntled landowners and violent evictions, with no international or government plan to move or house them."

squatter sovereignty  

squat  

cybersquatter  websquatter  

colonist  interloper  intruder  settler  trespasser  

Potter  Trotter  blotter  cotter  dotter  

agriculturist  boor  businessman  cowman  frontiersman  

arriviste  colonial  colonist  colonizer  emigrant  

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