squat

v.

to be a squatter (q.v.) in any of the sensesof that word.

1846. Feb. 11, `Speech by Rev. J. D. Lang,' quoted in`Phillipsland,' p. 410:

In whatever direction one moves out of Melbourne, whethernorth, east, or west, all he sees or hears is merely arepetition of this colonial note – – `I squat, thou squattest, hesquats; we squat, ye or you squat, they squat.'. . . Exeunt omnes. `They are all gone out a-squatting.'»

1846. T. H. Braim, `History of New South Wales,' vol. i.p. 236:

«The regulations . . . put an end to squatting within theboundaries of location, and reduced it to a system withoutthe boundaries.»

1852. G. C. Mundy, `Our Antipodes' (edition 1855), p. 136:

«The Speaker squats equally and alternately on the woolsack ofthe House and at his wool-stations on the Murrumbidgee. Onemay squat on a large or small scale, squat directly orindirectly, squat in person or by proxy.»

1854. W. Golder, `Pigeons' Parliament,' p. 68:

«Some spot,

Found here and there, where cotters squat

With self-permission.»

1861. T. McCombie, `Australian Sketches,' p. 119:

«Squatting, in its first phase, was confined to the regionround about Sydney; it was not until the pass through the BlueMountains was discovered that the flocks and herds of thecolonists began to expand.»