Definition of "homesteaded" [homesteaded]

• Simple past tense and past participle of homestead. (verb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "Lands imperial armies had conquered, cossacks homesteaded, Bolshevik engineers industrialized, Red Army troops defended—all signed away, with a few strokes of a borrowed pen."
• "Once when I was rhapsodizing about the joys of the simpler life, a woman friend who had homesteaded for several years without electricity said, I will never go back to living without a washing machine."
• "Originally homesteaded in the late 1800's, the Flying Dog features nine bedrooms and seven bathrooms on 245 acres."