3 Metaphors for homesteads

In the Russian villages to-day the homesteads are private property, while the cultivated land is owned in common.

He was no half-acre farmer, but a worker of hundreds of acres; an' my little homestead was only a potato patch alongside of his.

The homestead may be sold for debts created by written contract, executed by the persons having the power to convey and expressly stipulating that the homestead is liable therefor, but it shall not in such case be sold except to supply the deficiency remaining after exhausting the other property pledged for the payment of the debt in the same written contract.

3 Metaphors for  homesteads