All 7 Uses
mortgage
in
A Thousand Acres
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- He had five hundred acres and no mortgage.†
p. 4.4mortgage = a real estate loan; or pledging something for a loan
- The Ericsons had three hundred seventy acres and a mortgage.†
p. 4.4
- Harold Clark and my father used to argue at our kitchen table about who should get the Ericson land when they finally lost their mortgage.†
p. 4.5
- A hundred and sixty acres, no mortgage.†
p. 12.3
- There'd been no fiddling with that, which went to Ty's uncle, and amounted to about four hundred acres, no mortgage.†
p. 12.4 *
- My father most certainly disapproved of Cal Ericson's aspirations, which seemed to be merely to get along, pay his mortgage, and enjoy himself as much as possible.†
p. 44.9
- I pay two hundred dollars a month, every month, and I think of it as my "regret money," and though what I am regretful for mutates and evolves, I am glad to pay it, the only mortgage I will ever be given.†
p. 368.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(mortgage) a real estate loan; or to offer real estate as collateral for a loan
(collateral is something that has to be given to the lender if the loan isn't paid as agreed) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)