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Dutchman†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a settler of German extraction, especially during colonial days, as a Pennsylvania Dutch Loyalist or as in the Lunenburg region of Nova Scotia.
Quotations
1829
Water may attract the willow to a certain extent, which may account for the Dutchman's art in discovering spring-wells with a forked stick.
1853
I hired a Dutchman from the settlement with his lumber-sleigh and span of horses to move my family. . . .
1903
"Th' only man es I've iver heered on, es could beat Nathan at th' table wuz Schmidt, th' Dutchman. . . ."
1916
". . . I'm a Nova Scotia Dutchman, but I can spot an old country Deutscher ten faddom away. . . ."
2n. — Obs.
a keg of liquor.
Quotations
1830
There is also a keg of liquor (called the Dutchman) from which the people are drammed three or four times a day, according to the state of the Weather.