frontagern.
1. An owner of land or property adjoining:
a. the sea-shore.
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the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > landowner > owner of land adjoining shore or bank
frontagera1642
riparian1814
a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) i. 25 The Frontagers have claimed those grounds so left, by a pretended Custome of Frontagers.
1866 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Dec. The free use and enjoyment of the sea-shore..giving to the frontager..such a title as may not be inconsistent with those rights.
1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 570 The liability of a frontager to repair a sea-wall..can only be ascertained by usage.
b. a roadway.
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the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > landowner > owner of land adjoining road
frontager1739
1739 Bewholm Inclos. Act 6 Messuagers, cottagers and frontagers.
1880 Law Rep.: Exchequer Div. 5 206 Several frontagers called upon to pay the expenses of paving a street.
1890 Sat. Rev. 10 May 559/2 Mr. Forbes would willingly carry a new line along the proposed route..with the permission of the frontagers and owners.
2. One who lives on a frontier. rare.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun] > frontiersman or pioneer
dew-beatera1670
frontier1677
frontierman1782
pathfinder1840
frontager1893
old residenter1898
1893 S. Lane-Poole Aurengzib vi. 115 Mir Junda's disastrous campaign in Assam was typical of many attempts to subdue the North-east frontagers of India.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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