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It's a slang name for a subsistance farmer, particularly one in the American West of the 19th Century. "Sod" is soil held together by grass. Plowing breaks up, or "busts" the sod.

The term is not related to the British slang for anal rape.

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Made farm land and made a homestead anywhere they could live.

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