Word Finder - homesteads

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A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.

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The place that is one's home.

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A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family.

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The home or seat of a family; place of origin.

They merely clung to their homesteads, and harboured a natural resentment against the raiders who had dispossessed them.

Hay is never mown on the true alps save in spots which are not easily accessible to cattle (in very high spots it belongs to the mower, and is then called Wildheu), but hay-crops are made on the Mayens or Voralpen, the lowest pastures, situated between the homesteads and the true alps; these Voralpen are individual (not communal) property, though probably in olden days cut out of the true Alpen.

Homesteads belonging to the head of a family and containing 80 to 160 acres (according to value) if in the country, or a lot of ¢ to one acre (according to value), if in town, village or city, are exempt from liability for debts, excepting liens for purchase money, improvements or taxes.

The French had lived in villages and maintained considerable communal life; the Americans scattered on homesteads.

A force of io,000 fighting men, led by Macomo, a brother of the chief who was killed, swept across the frontier, pillaged and burned the homesteads and murdered all who dared to resist.

Presumably their homesteads were not on this land and were not subject to Gabhailcine.

Shortly after the discovery of Iceland by the Scandinavians, c. 850 (it had long been inhabited by a small colony of Irish Culdees), a stream of immigration set in towards it, which lasted for sixty years, and resulted in the establishment of some 4000 homesteads.

It is divided into five parts, the first of which contains a brief account of the discovery of the island; the other four, one by one taking a quarter of the land, describe the name, pedigree and history of each settler in geographical order, notice the most important facts in the history of his descendants, the names of their homesteads, their courts and temples, thus including mention of 4000 persons, one-third of whom are women, and 2000 places.

The buildings belonging to the homesteads are enclosed within an immense palisade, inside which a large expanse of fields is mostly planted with plum, damson, and other fruit-trees, surrounding the houses of the occupiers.

Fuidirs had no rights in the sept; some were true serfs, others tenants-at-will; they lived in scattered homesteads like the farmers of the present time.

In other districts the villages and homesteads are enclosed within formidable defences of prickly-pear or thorny mimosa.

Unlike Nutbourne which now consists largely of modern houses, Prinsted has retained many of its old thatched homesteads.

A view looking down on the sandy beach and headland at Port St. John with a few scattered homesteads behind the beach area.

In consequence of this organization the homesteads of airig commonly included several families, those of his brothers, sons, &c. (see Brehon Laws).

If you would know the history of these homesteads, inquire at the bank where they are mortgaged.

A two hour tour with Starline will take you past a whopping 40 celebrity homesteads, and you'll be accompanied by a tour guide to make sure you don't miss a thing.