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| homesteader |
a settler under the U.S. Homestead Act. [1/2 definitions] |
| plainsman |
a man who lives on the plains, esp. a frontiersman or early settler on the prairies or plains of the midwestern and western United States. |
| plainswoman |
a woman who lives on the plains, esp. an early settler on the prairies of the midwestern and western United States. |
| seigneur |
in French Canada, the holder of an estate originally granted to a settler by the king of France. [1/2 definitions] |
| squatter |
one who settles on and occupies land or a property, either without a legal right to do so, or under a government program that provides for eventual ownership by the settler. [1/2 definitions] |
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