DCHP-1 Online
bogus settler 
a person who takes up land with the pretended purpose of farming it but with the real motive of cutting and selling timber on it; timber pirate.
See also: lumber squatter
- 1883 [. . . don't let him attempt to cheat the Government and the merchant by pretending to take out the lot for farming purposes, while all the time he is looking after only the dues on the timber . . . pocketing himself a few hundred dollars.]
- 1936 . . . the chief criticism is that the policy works in favour of that historic figure, the bogus settler, "timber thief" or "timber pirate."
- 1883 [. . . don't let him attempt to cheat the Government and the merchant by pretending to take out the lot for farming purposes, while all the time he is looking after only the dues on the timber . . . pocketing himself a few hundred dollars.]