[f. SQUAT v.]
1. Occupying land as a squatter or squatters.
1839. W. Irving, Chron. Wolfert’s Roost (1855), 4. The losel Yankees of Connecticut, those swapping, bargaining, squatting enemies of the Manhattoes.
1887. Times (weekly ed.), 25 Feb., 9/3. The numerous sub-tenants or squatting crofters.
2. Sitting closely to the ground; crouching.
1871. Daily News, 5 Jan., 5/5. Come nearer and look inside that ring of squatting men, or what once were men.
1883. Congregationalist, Oct., 848. Further digging uncovered two parts of the statue of a squatting man.
