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Borderer

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who lives near the border of a country or district, especially that between England and Scotland.

    "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."

  2. 2
    an inhabitant of a border area (especially the border between Scotland and England) wordnet
  3. 3
    A soldier of a border regiment in the British Army (Border Regiment, South Wales Borderers, King's Own Scottish Borderers).

Etymology

From border + -er.

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