squatter

To make a noise like a flock of wild fowl flapping their wings against or through the water.

To plunge into or through water.

One who or that which squats.

One who settles on new land, particularly on public land, without a title.

Hence One who or that which assumes domiciliary rights without a title.

One who obtains from the government a right of pasturage on moderate terms; also, any stock-owner.

In ornithology, same as krieker.

One who squats

See Squat snipe, under Squat.

the right claimed by the squatters, or actual residents, of a Territory of the United States to make their own laws.