Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place.
- noun One who approaches near to another in any relation.
- noun One who makes borders or bordering.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who resides near a
border .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an inhabitant of a border area (especially the border between Scotland and England)
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Examples
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The closer to Scotland they lived, the more suspicious they often were, and, though not a borderer, Lord Hotham certainly was a Yorkshireman.
N.B. 2009
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The closer to Scotland they lived, the more suspicious they often were, and, though not a borderer, Lord Hotham certainly was a Yorkshireman.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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The Lancaster forces were routed and King Henry, the poor wandering lost King Henry who does not know fully where he is, even when he is in his palace at Whitehall, has run away into the moors of Northumberland, a price on his head as if he were an outlaw, without attendants, without friends, without even followers, like a borderer rebel as wild as a chough.
The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009
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The Lancaster forces were routed and King Henry, the poor wandering lost King Henry who does not know fully where he is, even when he is in his palace at Whitehall, has run away into the moors of Northumberland, a price on his head as if he were an outlaw, without attendants, without friends, without even followers, like a borderer rebel as wild as a chough.
The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009
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The Lancaster forces were routed and King Henry, the poor wandering lost King Henry who does not know fully where he is, even when he is in his palace at Whitehall, has run away into the moors of Northumberland, a price on his head as if he were an outlaw, without attendants, without friends, without even followers, like a borderer rebel as wild as a chough.
The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009
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The spot where the borderer Turnbull had made his escape at the hunting match, was one specimen of this broken country, and perhaps connected itself with the various thickets and passes through which the knight and pilgrim occasionally seemed to take their way, though that ravine was at a considerable distance from their present route.
Castle Dangerous 2008
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Sir John de Walton having alighted from his horse, asked Greenleaf what had passed during his absence; the old archer thought it his duty to say that a minstrel, who seemed like a Scotchman, or wandering borderer, had been admitted into the castle, while his son, a lad sick of the pestilence so much talked of, had been left for a time at the Abbey of Saint Bride.
Castle Dangerous 2008
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The bold borderer made this declaration with the same provoking degree of coolness which predominated in his whole demeanour, and was indeed his principal attribute.
Castle Dangerous 2008
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HUNTER: This is how pet store owner and dog borderer Marcia Habib starts her day, checking the Internet for recalls for both wet and dry pet food.
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They were a borderer people of Rome, sometimes inside the borders and sometimes outside.
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