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homesteading 
n. settling on land under the conditions of the Homestead Act (def. 2).
See also: Homestead Act (def. 2)
- 1891 Mr. Dabin moved that certain settlers in the North-West be granted the privilege of second homesteading. . . .
- 1960 Hundreds of families abandoned their farms and . . . crowded the roads in their desperation to reach the parklands or forest belt to the north[,] where a fresh start was made at homesteading--with nothing.
- 1891 Mr. Dabin moved that certain settlers in the North-West be granted the privilege of second homesteading. . . .