mountain man
noun1
Canada, US, Historical A male trapper and explorer who lives in the wilderness.
- In the frost-stunted birch forests on the Siberian border, sturdy, windburned mountain men trap beaver and pan for gold.1963, Loren Fessler, The Editors of LIFE, “An Immense and Crowded Land”, in China (LIFE World Library), New York: Time Incorporated, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10, column 1:
- Related terms
- backwoodsman, hillbilly