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drylander
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a person who settled in a region of low precipitation, especially the Dry Belt (def. 1).
See: Dry Belt(def. 1)
Quotations
1963
[Caption] All-too-familiar to many a pioneer of the prairies is this shot from the "Drylanders"--the moving story of courage in the Canadian west now being shown by the National Film Board through Columbia Pictures.
1963
At the Tivoli theater in Saskatoon last week, surviving drylanders could be heard telling the youngsters: "That was the way it was."