| 单词 | tomahawk right |
| 释义 | > as lemmastomahawk right tomahawk right n. North American (historical in later use) a right to a piece of land established by having carried out minor or token modifications to it, esp. by cutting or marking trees using a tomahawk or hatchet; cf. tomahawk improvement n. ΚΠ 1787 J. Harmar Let. 7 Aug. in W. H. Smith St. Clair Papers (1882) II. 29 Many of General Clarke's militia..had cast their eyes on choice lands, and I am informed had made what they called tomahawk rights. 1849 H. Howe Hist. Coll. Virginia 373 There was, at an early period of our settlements, an inferior kind of land title denominated a ‘tomahawk right’, which was made by deadening a few trees near the head of a spring, and marking the bark..with the initials of the name of the person who made the improvement. 2010 Virginia Mag. Hist. & Biogr. 118 110 Tomahawk rights were based loosely on the surveyor practice of blazing territorial boundary markers onto trees, but settlers adapted it to their ad hoc and imprecise system for rapidly claiming land. < as lemmas |
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