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spirit-wrestler†
[a literal trans. of Russian dukhoborets]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a member of a Christian sect founded in Russia in the 18th century, several thousand of whom settled in Western Canada at the end of the 19th century.
See: Doukhobor
Quotations
1916
Mavor investigated the spirit wrestlers and other forms of communities of similar character in Russia and advised that these people be immigrated into the north-west prairies.
1953
Does anybody know what happened with that bunch of spirit-wrestlers that was a-wandering around our district looking for the Promised Land?