单词 | squattage |
释义 | squattagen. 1. A holding occupied by a squatter. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep-farm sheep-steading1566 sheep-stead1581 sheep-farm1776 station1853 squattage1862 1862 G. Duffy Land Law Victoria 10 Those..will necessarily desire to prevent any unfair absorption of the land, which must be speedily replaced out of their own squattages. 1864 W. Westgarth Colony of Victoria 272 The great Riverine district, which is one vast series of squattages. 1891 Daily News 11 Sept. 2/4 Their holdings being originally squattages or small enclosures made on commons and waste lands. 2. The occupation of ground, etc., by squatting. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > [noun] > occupancy > of land > by squatting squatting1832 squatment1860 squattage1901 1901 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 July 3/1 The Piccadilly newsvendor, whose rights of squattage..that Office had not been prepared to acknowledge. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1862 |
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