claim-jumper
noun
a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
claim-jumping
-
a word derived from
claim-jumper.
Example Sentences
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A kind of claim-jumping mold had moved in and started its own colonies among the staph.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was in well-boring or insurance or claim-jumping, or something--I've forgotten which.
From Heart of the West by O. Henry
It's claim-jumping; and not a cent will they pay, and laugh at us besides, and call us mossbacks.
From In Exile and Other Stories by Mary Hallock Foote
He was in well-boring or insurance or claim-jumping, or something—I've forgotten which.
From Heart of the West [Annotated] by Joseph E. Loewenstein
"I really think I should have been more successful than I was at claim-jumping."
From A Damaged Reputation by Harold Bindloss
