单词 | homesteading |
释义 | homesteadingn. 1. A house and its adjacent outbuildings; = homestead n. 2a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmstead > [noun] towneOE steading1472 farm-steading1533 onstead1551 farmtown1609 homestead1610 farmstead1753 homesteading1812 werf1818 plaas1834 head station1835 1812 J. Henderson Gen. View Agric. Sutherland viii. 80 Leaving their..cattle to pasture on the shealing..until the stormy snow drive them to the homesteading. 1840 Colonial Mag. Dec. 355 At Arthur's Seat there is likewise, a pretty cottage, barn, stables and all the appendages of a homesteading. 1899 Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 3 379 We may be forgiven for dreaming that the descendants of the first settlers still live on the old homesteadings. 1911 L. Rose Farm Dairying iii. 27 Nothing adds so much to the appearance..of a homesteading as having all the buildings painted. 2. North American. The action or an act of granting, claiming, or settling on a homestead (homestead n. 2b). Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [noun] > with land homesteading1870 society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [noun] > specific granting of land precary1694 centuriation1867 homesteading1870 precarium1878 1870 Old & New Dec. 756/2 Land can be settled here in three ways—by homesteading, by pre-empting, and by squatting on railroad lands. 1894 A. Begg Hist. North-west II. vi. 82 Certain lands were exempted from homesteadings and pre-emption. 1925 Glasgow Herald 10 Aug. 4 Homesteading has been a great factor in the agricultural development of Western Canada. 1998 S. J. Diner Very Different Age iv. 115 By 1900 the government had taken six million acres in New Mexico for national forests and another million for homesteading. 3. Chiefly U.S. The practice of selling run-down public-owned urban properties at a low cost to people who are willing to inhabit and improve them. ΚΠ 1963 Eugene (Oregon) Register-Guard 9 Dec. 12/2 Qualified applicants would be able to buy a government-foreclosed house for next to nothing if they promise to live in it for at least five years and fix it up... The city manager's office..outlined what the federal government calls its ‘urban homesteading program’. 1972 Atlanta Daily World 26 Oct. 2/4 (headline) Homesteading in cities is suggested by HUD official. 1977 Times 6 Apr. 4/1 Homesteading is one of the measures announced in the party's manifesto, London's Future in Your Hands, designed to tackle the housing shortage in the capital. 1995 F. R. Shivers Walking in Baltimore Introd. 16 Whole streetscapes have survived through ‘homesteading’, a plan by which one buys a house shell for one dollar. 2010 A. Power et al. Phoenix Cities xiv. 320 Its ambitious regeneration projects, such as..the renewal of older housing through homesteading and gentrification,..have all benefited the city. Compounds General attributive, as homesteading law, homesteading scheme, etc. ΚΠ 1886 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 22 June 6/2 Mr. Wellborn, of Texas, one of the prominent members of the House,..and favoring homesteading laws..was asked to-day what he thought of the vote yesterday. 1903 J. Lumsden Through Canada in Harvest Time 156 These Doukhobors..at first insisted upon living on the communal system, which is in direct antagonism to the homesteading system of the Dominion. 1927 Planter & Sugar Manufacturer 15 Jan. 56/1 Their opposition to the homesteading scheme gradually developed..as the actual homesteading of the lands became a fact. 1936 Scrutiny 4 iv. 441 Honey in the Horn is a detailed account of life in the state of Oregon during the homesteading period (1906–8). 1993 R. Broad Plundering Paradise iv. 61 The Filipinos migrated for many of the same reasons American settlers had pushed westward: they were encouraged by homesteading laws and were going in search of land to farm. 2001 Guardian (Nexis) 7 Aug. 16 Local authorities who realise the catastrophe they face if street after street falls to the unscrupulous private landlord will jump at the offer to run pilot homesteading schemes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). homesteadingadj. North American. That claims or occupies a plot of land as a homestead (homestead n. 2b) (now historical). Also in extended use: that establishes a home. ΚΠ 1881 C. D. Wilber Great Valleys & Prairies Nebraska & Northwest xv. 366 The contesting party alleges in an affidavit that the homesteading party has not complied with the law. 1907 A. Shaw Polit. Probl. of Amer. Devel. iv. 103 The great cattle producers, the homesteading farmers,..and the other diverse interests of a vast empire. 1962 Pop. Sci. Aug. 67/2 As the sun sets, the homesteading beavers come out on the bank and begin their timbering operations. 1984 M. Perman Road to Redempt. (1985) xi. 257 He recommended the active involvement of government in the campaign to attract homesteading settlers. 2003 Jrnl. Early Republic 23 484 The Black Hawk War opened the Great Plains to a flood of homesteading immigrants. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1812adj.1881 |
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