[home.stead] n (bef. 12c) 1 a: the home and adjoining land occupied by a family b: an ancestral home c: house
2: a tract of land acquired from U.S. public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating the tract
[2]home.stead vt (1872): to acquire or occupy as a homestead ~ vi: to acquire or settle on land under a homestead law -- home.stead.er n