headright
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headright (plural headrights)
- (Canada, US, now historical) A legal grant to own unsettled land in colonial America, or the land so claimed. [from 18th c.]
- 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 4:
- By 1846 we had moved past the line of settlement, to my father's headright on the Pedernales.