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frontiersman†
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:frontierman
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a person who lives on the frontier, especially one who is knowledgeable in its ways.
See: frontier(def. 2)
Quotations
1882
If this boundary manipulator, claim-staker, smudge verifyer, sproutee, frontiersman thirteen years out has by the success of his artifices deluded himself to the zenith of consequentiality, he must not count on a quiet walk in over my shanty.
1960
In 1862, Richard Willoughby, an experienced frontierman, found the Lowhee, which he named after a secret society formed by the miners in 1858 at Yale.
1963
In the words of the frontiersman, the half-breed was "the meanest creature that walks."