| 单词 | legion of frontiersmen |
| 释义 | > as lemmasLegion of Frontiersmen 1. One who lives on the frontier of a country, or on the outlying districts of civilization. Legion of Frontiersmen, an organization intended to enrol for irregular service men with colonial or frontier experience. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun] > frontiersman or pioneer dew-beatera1670 frontier1677 frontierman1782 pathfinder1840 frontager1893 old residenter1898 society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > irregulars tumultuary1654 watch1739 irregular1747 campoo1803 pioneer corps1845 harka1903 Legion of Frontiersmen1905 non-regular1909 1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer xii. 270 (heading) Distresses of a frontier man. 1813 Sporting Mag. 42 209 Somewhat in the manner of our frontier men's leggins. 1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana ii. iv. 116 There seems to prevail a rage amongst the frontiers-men, for emigration to that quarter. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. xx. 260 They were all, or nearly all, natives of the Mexican border—frontiers-men. 1877 W. Matthews Ethnogr. Hidatsa 22 The whites they had seen were mostly rude Canadian frontiersmen. 1883 B. Mitford Through Zulu Country iii. 45 A burly frontiersman..strides along in all the glory of wideawake and corduroy. 1905 Times 11 Apr. 8/1 A corporation to be called the ‘Legion of Frontiersmen’. 1906 Daily Chron. 21 May 7/1 Mr. Roger Pocock, founder and hon. secretary of the Legion of Frontiersmen. 1930 Times 8 Nov. 8/7 A movement has been set on foot for the formation of a Maritime Command of the Legion of Frontiersmen. < as lemmas |
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