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back country Chiefly N. Amer., Austral., and N.Z.
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The country lying towards or in the rear of a settled district.
1746in C. R. Woodward Ploughs (1941) 332 In the back Country abt Paoqualin The Cattle feed is near over. 1789Morse Amer. Geogr. 415 The mistletoe is common in the back country. 1831J. M. Peck Guide for Emigrants iii. 292 It..has an abundance of excellent water, and a back country as range for stock. 1840N.Z. Jrnl. 29 Aug. 209/2 Hobson is founding a town at the Bay of Islands, but we have an assurance that there is no back country there. 1844Bytown Gaz. (Ottawa) 8 Aug. 2/6 A road into the interior..would not only benefit Kingston, (so much in want of a productive back country) but would open new tracts for settlement. 1860S. Butler First Year in Canterbury Settlement 24 Mar. (1863) iv. 47 At last I have been really in the extreme back country. 1868Putnam's Mag. Nov. 562 The hotel was a roomy log-house,..and commanded a view of the back country—a prairie stretching off into the western horizon. 1882Macm. Mag. XLVI. 70/2 Driven..into the backest of the back country. 1902Westm. Gaz. 6 Aug. 2/1 The unappropriated back-country of Tunis and Tripoli. 1936F. Gerald Millionaire in Memories iii. 71 Travelling through the back country with Bill Langford was an education, a ‘bushman's’ education. 1964Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 11 July 20/2 Devil's club [is] the thorned scourge of hikers in much of British Columbia's back country.
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1775C. Drayton Let. in South Carolina Hist. & Geneal. Mag. (1926) XXVII. 137 His trepanned Lordship advises the back Country people not to take up arms. 1867M. A. Barker Station Life Aug. (1870) xx. 173 The distant ‘back-country’ ranges. 1871E. Eggleston Hoosier Schoolm. (1872) Pref. 5 Describing life in the back-country districts. 1887Harper's Mag. Jan. 328/1 In a back-country town..there chanced to die one of the members of the community. 1901‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness (1902) 161 Imaginations so crude as those of the back-country Boers. 1948Coast to Coast 1947 296, I was in a back-country farm in Central Otago. 1965Star Weekly (Toronto) 2 Jan. 37/2 The nearest doctor was 70 miles away over a poor back-country road.
Hence back-countryman.
1796Gaz. U.S. 19 Nov., Advt. (Th.), A new Ballet Dance, called the Back Countryman, or the New Settlers. 1845W. G. Simms Wigwam & Cabin ser. i. iv. 22 The boatman, who..knew by his dialect and dress that he was a back-countryman, came to his relief. 1942Marsh & Burdon New Zealand 9 The shepherds, musterers, shearers and drovers, the back-countrymen of New Zealand. |