Definitions for claim-jumper

claim-jumper claim-jump·er

Spelling: [kleym-juhm-per]
IPA: /ˈkleɪmˌdʒʌm pər/

Claim-Jumper is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 715 anagrams from letters in claim-jumper (-aceijlmmpru).

Definitions for claim-jumper

noun

  1. a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.

Origin of claim-jumper

First recorded in 1825-35

Examples for claim-jumper

But Alice was no claim-jumper—so long as the notice of ownership was plainly posted.

You make about the poorest kind of claim-jumper I ever ran up against, and I've handled quite a few in my time.

Asked the claim-jumper's friend in feigned surprise, wishing that he had kept quiet.

He dared the shotgun the night they run that claim-jumper off.

The man must have been a claim-jumper, and meant to steal those papers.

The claim-jumper dropped what was left of his burden and went hopping on, acquiring stone bruises with every leap.

So long as this door was successfully held, no claim-jumper could penetrate into the tunnel or reach the shaft at the end.

I thought so the night we went over to run the claim-jumper off Absalom Frost's land, within a week of my joining.

What's the truth about that McMahon claim-jumper who was acquitted this morning?

He had still dared to hope that this girl was of no blood kin of the claim-jumper, Jeffery Neilson.

Word Value for claim-jumper
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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