DCHP-3

bogus settler

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a person who takes up land with the pretended purpose of farming it but with the real motive of cutting and selling timber on it; timber pirate.

Quotations

1883
[. . . don't let him attempt to cheat the Government and the merchant by pretending to take out the lot for farming purposes, while all the time he is looking after only the dues on the timber . . . pocketing himself a few hundred dollars.]
1936
. . . the chief criticism is that the policy works in favour of that historic figure, the bogus settler, "timber thief" or "timber pirate."