squattage

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


a squatter's station.The word can hardly be said to have prevailed.

1864. W. Westgarth, `Colony of Victoria,' p. 272:

«The great Riverine district, which is one vast series ofsquattages . . . the toil and solitude of a day's journeybetween the homesteads of adjacent squattages.»