frontiersman
a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
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How to use frontiersman in a sentence
Now Wang is enjoying a third act, this time as a new-media frontiersman.
In their company Jack Kilmeny was frankly a Western frontiersman.
The Highgrader | William MacLeod RaineThe new sentry's zeal, joined with an ex-frontiersman's aim, was fatal.
Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories | Bret HarteJim Beckwourth was our guide—a life-long frontiersman, an old man “beated and chopped with tanned antiquity.”
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce | Ambrose BierceFor the stratum of frontiersman and barbarian—not to say savage—lies just below the surface in us all, and a scratch exposes it.
The New Stone Age in Northern Europe | John M. Tyler
Wayne was the son of a Pennsylvania frontiersman and came honestly by his aptitude for Indian fighting.
The Old Northwest | Frederic Austin Ogg
British Dictionary definitions for frontiersman
/ (ˈfrʌntɪəzmən, frʌnˈtɪəz-) /
(formerly) a man living on a frontier, esp in a newly pioneered territory of the US
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