borderer

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border +‎ -er

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borderer (plural borderers)

  1. A person who resides near a border.
    • 1904, The Border Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume 9, page 208:
      The Borderers on the English side rieved, harried, and plundered each other with as much keenness and audacity as did the Scots on the other side.
    • 1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:
      " [] and as Mr. H., with his long purse and his willingness to receive hints, is no bad card in the game, he has been brought up to Abbotsford for a week; his taciturnity has long ago fled, and he is one of the most loquacious Borderers going. [] "
  2. A soldier of a border regiment in the British Army (Border Regiment, South Wales Borderers, King's Own Scottish Borderers).

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