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- noun Plural form of
homestead .
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Examples
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These and other structures, while demonstrating the need for allocated space within homesteads, again indicate that shared societal features and ongoing exchanges took place among neighboring communities.
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Legal authorities claim the government arrests and other moves to force white framers off their homesteads are a violation of the entrenched constitutional right of freedom from racial discrimination and of a fair hearing before an impartial tribunal.
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The many woody species grown in the homesteads are a significant source of fuelwood; they also provide fodder, building materials and other forms of wood.
1. Tree products in agroecosystems: economic and policy issues. 1992
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When these people found out that they could own large farms, called homesteads, in Western Canada, they decided to leave their own countries.
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57Many of the accoutrements with which Ruvu people furnished their homesteads are also identifiable.
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Some of this land was sold or given away as "homesteads," and then it became AGER PRIVÁTUS, or _private land_.
Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell
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If the Dukhobors do not want to occupy large tracts of land – "homesteads," or whatever else you may call them – why should they be made to take them at the point of the pitchfork?
Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910
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An air of comfort and cleanliness pervades their dwellings, and there is a neatness about their farms and homesteads which is generally wanted in the former.
Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) Samuel Strickland 1835
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Untold numbers of men—many of them fathers—left their homesteads to find a better life in the West.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Something new in western Kenya homesteads: a LifeStraw Family water filter, produced by the Swiss health-products company Vestergaard Frandsen.
Swiss Firm Seeks Carbon Credits in Kenya with Clean Water 2011
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