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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A legal grant to own unsettled land in colonial America, or the land so claimed. Canada, US, historical

   "By 1846 we had moved past the line of settlement, to my father's headright on the Pedernales."

Example

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"By 1846 we had moved past the line of settlement, to my father's headright on the Pedernales."

Etymology

From head + right.

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