claim-jumper

[ kleym-juhm-per ]

noun
  1. a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.

Origin of claim-jumper

1
First recorded in 1825–35

Other words from claim-jumper

  • claim-jumping, noun

Words Nearby claim-jumper

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How to use claim-jumper in a sentence

  • Asked the claim-jumper's friend in feigned surprise, wishing that he had kept quiet.

    Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up | Clarence Edward Mulford
  • So long as this door was successfully held, no claim-jumper could penetrate into the tunnel or reach the shaft at the end.

    A Girl of the Klondike | Victoria Cross
  • The claim-jumper dropped what was left of his burden and went hopping on, acquiring stone bruises with every leap.

    Rimrock Trail | J. Allan Dunn
  • He had still dared to hope that this girl was of no blood kin of the claim-jumper, Jeffery Neilson.

    The Sky Line of Spruce | Edison Marshall
  • I just bet I could kill you at forty paces, if you were a claim-jumper and looked at me the way Hank looked at you!

    Polly and Eleanor | Lillian Elizabeth Roy