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house-lot U.S.
A lot or portion of land sufficient for building a house on; a building plot; cf. home-lot and homestead 3.
1661in C. Butler Hist. Groton, Mass. (1848) 16 That these lands and meadows be so divided..that none have less than ten acres for their houselots and five acres of meadow. 1693,1706[see homestead 3]. 1841Emerson Lect., Conservative Wks. (Bohn) II. 269 ‘Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril’, cry all the gentlemen of this world. 1844― Yng. Amer. ibid. 295 The selection of a fit houselot. |