borderer
(ˈbɔːdərə(r))
Also 6 (bortherer), Sc. borderar, bourdurer, 7 bordurer, -drer.
[f. border v. and n. + -er1: with sense cf. Londoner.]
1. One who dwells near the border of a country or district; spec. one who dwells near the border of England and Scotland.
| 1494 Fabyan vii. ccxxxvi. 274 A great parte of Northumberlonde, the whiche he hadde wonne from the borderers. 1513 Bp. Ruthall to Wolsey in Nat. MSS. II. 8 [They] dare not trust the borderers which be falser than Scottes, and have doon mor harme at this tyme to our folkes. 1599 Shakes. Hen. V, i. ii. 142 A Wall sufficient to defend Our in-land from the pilfering Borderers. 1805 Scott Last Minstr. iii. vi, Stern was the dint the Borderer lent. 1839 Stonehouse Axholme 63 Inhabitants of the Isle, or Borderers, as they are termed in the Inquisition of 1607. 1884 Manch. Exam. 10 Dec. 5/1 Before the Bill passed, these borderers belonged to the county and had no votes. |
2. One who dwells in a district bordering upon another; one who borders on or dwells close to or by (a region or its inhabitants); a next neighbour. Formerly also said of a country.
| 1538 Leland Itin. IV. 57 One Inon a Walsch man, Borderer vnto Hym. 1579 Fenton Guicciard. Ep. Ded., Al your neighbours and borderers. 1632 J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 113 The former [Corsica] being so neere a borderer to the latter [Sardegna], as they almost joyne. 1649 Selden Laws Eng. i. iv. (1739) 9 Borderers upon the Roman world. 1776 Gibbon Decl. & F. I. 224 The borderers of the Rhine and Danube. c 1854 Stanley Sinai & Pal. iii. (1858) 164 Nabal..was a borderer on the wilderness. |
b. fig.
| a 1637 B. Jonson Discov. (L.) The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator. 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. xlvi. 344 Pride and meanness..are..close borderers on each other. 1820 Hazlitt Lect. Dram. Lit. 31 Borderers on the savage state. 1858 Gladstone Homer III. 283 We keep the Phæacians..as borderers between the world of Greek experience, and the world of fable. |
3. One who makes borders or bordering. black-borderer: one who makes black-edged paper.
| 1880 Daily Tel. 9 Jan. Advt., Black Borderer wanted. 1881 Glasgow Trades Direct. 806/1 Black Borderers. |
4. = bordar.
| 1771 Antiq. Sarisb. 29 A hide and half of land, and the land of one borderer, in the same Town. |