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jump claims

jump claims is the plural of jump a claim.

Meaning of jump a claim

Verb

jump a claim (third-person singular simple present jumps a claim, present participle jumping a claim, simple past and past participle jumped a claim)

  1. (Australia, US, Western, historical) To enter upon and take possession of land to which another has acquired a claim by prior entry and occupation.
    • Anarchy still reigns in this new country;—not only have the miners to defend their persons and their acquisitions against the incursions from Indian tribes; not only are crimes and offences common (lynch law maintaining a permitted existence instead of laws and police); but every one appears to...1853, Leon Faucher, chapter IV, in Thomson Hankey, transl., Remarks on the Production of the Precious Metals, and on the Demonetization of Gold in Several Countries in Europe, 2nd revised edition...

Forms of jump claims

third-person singular presentjumps claims
present participlejumping claims
past participlejumped claims
pastjumped claims

Questions about jump claims

What is jump claims the plural of?
Jump claims is the plural of jump a claim.

Words near jump claims in the dictionary

  1. jump blues
  2. jump boot
  3. jump boots
  4. jump box
  5. jump boxes
  6. jump claims
  7. jump cushion
  8. jump cushions
  9. jump cut
  10. jump cuts
  11. jump down

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jump claims (page history and authors); jump a claim (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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