moorlandern.
/ˈmʊələndə/, /ˈmɔːləndə/, U.S. /ˈmʊrˌlændər/, /ˈmʊrləndər/ Chiefly British.
A person who lives on moorland; spec. one who lives in the Moorlands of Staffordshire, England.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller on moor or heath
moorlander1643
moormana1712
heath-cropper1819
moorsman1889
1643 Scotish Dove 1 Dec. 61 God hath given us a victory against Collonel Hastings, by the valiant Morlanders [printed Marlanders] in Staffordshire.
1660 Leyborne-Popham MSS (Hist. MSS Comm. 1899) 139 The county [sc. Stafford] is apt to fly into arms, the northern inhabitants being ‘moorlanders’ and the southern parts abounding with ‘ironmen’.
1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 8 Rascals as false, as Moor-Landers.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Mure-lander, an inhabitant of the higher and uncultivated parts of a district.
1922 19th Cent. May 808 Moorlanders know better than towndwellers the limitations of the crystal stream.
2001 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs.) (Electronic ed.) 15 Mar. Dozens of Moorlanders..were filmed as extras in 1999.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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