释义 |
ˈback-ˈsettler [f. back settle-ment: see back a. 1 b.] One who lives in the back settlements of a colony or new country; a settler in the back-woods.
1809Southey in Q. Rev. II. 322 Individual wickedness on the part of the traders and back-settlers. 1829― Sir T. More (1831) II. 190 What to the American back-settler seems the perfection of wild independence. |