Homestead

(noun.) dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land.

(noun.) land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law.

(noun.) the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family.

(verb.) settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead.

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• As the fly passed the group which had run out from the homestead they shouted Hurrah! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• An old man came into the remoter light of the fire from the direction of the homestead. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I have stood many a time and thought what a neat little homestead it would make. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• It was in many ways an ideal homestead, toward which the family has always felt the strongest attachment, but the association with Milan has never wholly ceased. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It has widened man’s horizon, and given him all the lands instead of only the limits of his homestead. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• In the cellar of the Edison homestead young Alva soon accumulated a chemical outfit, constituting the first in a long series of laboratories. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• There was plough-land and pasture, and copses of bare trees, copses of bushes, and homesteads naked and work-bare. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Who would associate crime with these dear old homesteads? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Robert Jordan explained the process of homesteading. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.

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