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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of homestead.

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Examples

  • Larry homesteaded, operated a fish wheel and a gun shop while hunting and even gold prospecting.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • An old Sourdough friend of mine who homesteaded north of Talkeetna, shot a lot of moose with a .303 British, or whatever he happend to have with him at the time, 308Win, 8mm-06, shotgun with slugs.

    I know I have said that I would. Has anybody shot a moose or an elk with a 270 win? 150 grain bullets. 2009

  • Lands imperial armies had conquered, cossacks homesteaded, Bolshevik engineers industrialized, Red Army troops defended—all signed away, with a few strokes of a borrowed pen.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Lands imperial armies had conquered, cossacks homesteaded, Bolshevik engineers industrialized, Red Army troops defended—all signed away, with a few strokes of a borrowed pen.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Originally homesteaded in the late 1800's, the Flying Dog features nine bedrooms and seven bathrooms on 245 acres.

    Flying Dog Ranch On The Market For $46 Million (PHOTOS) Andrea Rael 2010

  • Lands imperial armies had conquered, cossacks homesteaded, Bolshevik engineers industrialized, Red Army troops defended—all signed away, with a few strokes of a borrowed pen.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Once when I was rhapsodizing about the joys of the simpler life, a woman friend who had homesteaded for several years without electricity said, I will never go back to living without a washing machine.

    Archive 2009-03-01 regina doman 2009

  • Lands imperial armies had conquered, cossacks homesteaded, Bolshevik engineers industrialized, Red Army troops defended—all signed away, with a few strokes of a borrowed pen.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Once when I was rhapsodizing about the joys of the simpler life, a woman friend who had homesteaded for several years without electricity said, I will never go back to living without a washing machine.

    I Love My Washing Machine! regina doman 2009

  • Originally homesteaded in the late 1800's, the Flying Dog features nine bedrooms and seven bathrooms on 245 acres.

    Flying Dog Ranch On The Market For $46 Million (PHOTOS) Andrea Rael 2010

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