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- noun Plural form of
backwoodsman .
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Examples
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Moreover, the backwoodsmen were a hard people; a people who still lived in an iron age.
The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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Similarly the Indians round the upper Ohio and thence southward often called the backwoodsmen "Virginians."
The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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The backwoodsmen are a generous and placable race.
A New Guide for Emigrants to the West John Mason Peck 1823
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His grandfather the 19th Baron was one of the most forthright of the Tory peers, or so-called "backwoodsmen", who fought in the last ditch against Asquith's Parliament Act 100
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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He also said that he felt agreement could be achieved, if everyone was committed to doing so and slammed "backwoodsmen" within the DUP for intransigence.
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A senior Tory has risked offending the party's grassroots support by describing members opposing the party's change of direction under David Cameron as "backwoodsmen".
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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A senior Tory has risked offending the party's grassroots support by describing members opposing the party's change of direction under David Cameron as "backwoodsmen".
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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A senior Tory has risked offending the party's grassroots support by describing members opposing the party's change of direction under David Cameron as "backwoodsmen".
Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news 2010
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Having used the commitment to spend 0.7% of our gross national income on aid by 2013 as a way of cleansing the Conservative brand in opposition, it is no surprise that the international aid budget became hostage to the party's backwoodsmen who argue that charity begins, and ends, at home.
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But a group of five stood upright, backwoodsmen and frontiersmen, they, eager to contest any man's birthday.
Chapter III 2010
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