单词 | home lot |
释义 | home lotn. U.S. In early use: a plot of land assigned to a particular owner for the purpose of building a house or farm on; = homestead n. 2b. Later more generally: a plot of land suitable for building a house on; a building plot. Cf. house lot n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] > farm occupied by owner home lot1636 homestead1680 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > sufficient for one family manse1597 home lot1636 homestead1680 familia1729 1636 in J. G. Holland Hist. Western Mass. (1855) I. i. 27 It is ordered that William Blake shall have sixteen polle in bredth for his home lott. 1685 T. Budd Good Order Established in Pennsylvania & New-Jersey in Amer. 19 They have built their dwelling Houses, Cowhouses, Barnes, and other Out-houses, and have made Inclosures about their home-lots. 1714 in J. H. Temple & G. Sheldon Hist. Northfield, Mass. (1875) 134 The rear of said home-lots' fence shall have one-half of said fence to be accounted as Public Fence. 1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer iv. 126 They surveyed as much ground as would afford to each what is generally called here a home-lot. 1847 Merry's Museum Oct. 104/1 The ruins of the old cottage, the irregular rail fence which enclosed the home lot,..had vanished. 1875 J. H. Temple & G. Sheldon Hist. Northfield, Mass. 13 Every engager for the First and Second Settlements received, in addition to a home-lot, a share of these interval lands. 1895 J. Winsor Mississippi Basin 293 Twelve families were soon picking out their home lots along its banks. 1916 C. M. Robinson City Planning (rev. ed.) v. 52 Land which is held in tracts or blocks may be cut into home-lots. 1958 Connecticut Hist. Soc. Apr. 39 He sold some of his homelot and pasture lands, for he was then about seventy-two years old. 2005 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 19 Jan. (Pasco Times section) 1 He also has created Treasure Cove at the end of Old Post Road, an enclave of 18 home lots. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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