claim-jumper

[ kleym-juhm-per ]

/ ˈkleɪmˌdʒʌm pər /

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noun

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

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Origin of claim-jumper

First recorded in 1825–35

OTHER WORDS FROM claim-jumper

claim-jumping, noun

Words nearby claim-jumper

claim, claimant, claim check, claimer, claiming race, claim-jumper, claimsman, Clair, clairaudience, clairaudient, Clairaut

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