frontiersman (ˈfrʌntɪəzmən
;frʌnˈtɪəz-)
Definitions
noun
- (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.
, LOST LION OF EMPIRE:The Life of 'Cape-to-Cairo' Grogan (2002)