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homesteader

/hohm-sted-er/US // ˈhoʊmˌstɛd ər //UK // (ˈhəʊmˌstɛdə) //

农户,农夫,家庭主妇,农民

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the owner or holder of a homestead.
    • : a settler under the Homestead Act.

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Examples

  • On the upper Buffalo, the Boxley Valley Historic District preserves structures from the 1870s to 1930s, with family farms continuing the traditions of the original homesteaders.

  • Not in looking for financial gain, but blazing the trail and opening new frontiers, and then allowing private industry to take over in the way homesteaders expanded into the West.

  • My great grandfather came here as a homesteader in 1882 when it was nothing but wide-open spaces.

  • Moreover, as a homesteader, his problem was far from solved by mere access to free land.

  • The homesteader was stooping still, and he made another pace, crouching a trifle, with every muscle hardening.

  • They clustered about him, and one of them, stooping over the injured homesteader, signed to his comrades.

  • It turned out that the cowboys had been arrested for lassoing a Norwegian homesteader who had cut their wire.

  • He's after my chickens, and as new-laid eggs are worth more than Browning to a homesteader, I got out my duck-gun.