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Definition of “frontiersman

frontiersman (ˈfrʌntɪəzmənPronunciation for frontiersman;frʌnˈtɪəz-) 

Definitions

noun

  1. (formerly) a man living on a frontier, esp in a newly pioneered territory of the US

Usage examples

  • ``Is Ahab the hero, the prototype of the American frontiersman battling the brute forces of Nature?
    The Mercury, Sunday Tasmanian (2005)
  • Critics didn't warm to his cannibalistic frontiersman in Ravenous.
    Sun, News of the World (1999)
  • They were an altogether more rough and ready lot, used to the hard knocks of the Boer War and the frontiersman 's life.
    Edward Paice, LOST LION OF EMPIRE:The Life of 'Cape-to-Cairo' Grogan (2002)

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