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Definition
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)
(collateral is something that has to be given to the lender if the loan isn't paid as agreed)
- A hundred and sixty acres, no mortgage.p. 12.3
- He had five hundred acres and no mortgage.p. 4.4
- 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
- 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
There are no more uses of "mortgage" in A Thousand Acres.
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