homesteaded

Verb

homestead (third-person singular simple present homesteads, present participle homesteading, simple past and past participle homesteaded)

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.1952, John Steinbeck, chapter 2, in East of Eden
2. (transitive, political philosophy, chiefly libertarianism) To appropriate an unowned, scarce means, and thereby gain ownership of it.

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