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claim-jumper
[ kleym-juhm-per ]
noun
- a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
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- claim-jumping noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of claim-jumper1
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Example Sentences
Asked the claim-jumper's friend in feigned surprise, wishing that he had kept quiet.
So long as this door was successfully held, no claim-jumper could penetrate into the tunnel or reach the shaft at the end.
The claim-jumper dropped what was left of his burden and went hopping on, acquiring stone bruises with every leap.
He had still dared to hope that this girl was of no blood kin of the claim-jumper, Jeffery Neilson.
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!
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