squattage

plural squattages

1. AustraliahistoricalA holding occupied by a squatter (an occupier of Crown land or a large-scale land owner).

   When this was done Strangway and one of the men rode over to Coglin station to send a telegram to Mills that all was well and a good squattage had been secured.

   1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia

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   Many persons held squatting licences who did not live on the squattage, but carried on some occupation elsewhere, the run being left in the care of an overseer.

   1918, Timothy Augustine Coghlan, Labour and Industry in Australia: From the First Settlement in 1788 to the Establishment of the Commonwealth in 1901, Oxford University Press, page 387