frontiersman
nounEtymology From frontiers + man.
1
A person who lives on the borders of a country, or in a wild and undeveloped area on the fringes of civilization.
- The inhabitant's of England's North American colonies outnumbered French Canadians some ten to one, but the French were tough, fur-trapping frontiersmen who posed a considerable military threat.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, pages 136–7:
- Derived terms
- frontiersmanship
- Coordinate terms
- backwoodsman, hillbilly, mountain man, woodsman