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jumping a claim

jumping a claim is the present participle and gerund 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...

Questions about jumping a claim

What is jumping a claim the present participle and gerund of?
Jumping a claim is the present participle and gerund of jump a claim.

Words near jumping a claim in the dictionary

  1. jumpily
  2. jumpin'
  3. jumpiness
  4. jumpinesses
  5. jumping
  6. jumping a claim
  7. jumping about
  8. jumping all over
  9. jumping and dumping
  10. jumping around
  11. jumping at

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