borderern.
/ˈbɔːdərə/ 1. One who dwells near the border of a country or district; spec. one who dwells near the border of England and Scotland.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > native or inhabitant of borders > [noun]
borderera1513
debatable1551
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxxvi. f. clix A great parte of Northumberlonde, the whiche he hadde wonne from the borderers.
1513 T. Ruthall Let. 20 Sept. in Facsimiles National MSS (1865) ii. v [They] dare not trust the borderers whiche be falser than Scottes, and have doon mor harme at this tyme to our folkes.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V i. ii. 142 The Marches..shalbe sufficient To guard your England from the pilfering borderers.
1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel iii. vi. 68 Stern was the dint the Borderer lent.
1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 63 Inhabitants of the Isle, or Borderers, as they are termed in the Inquisition of 1607.
1884 Manch. Examiner 10 Dec. 5/1 Before the Bill passed, these borderers belonged to the county and had no votes.
2.
a. One who dwells in a district bordering upon another; one who borders on or dwells close to or by (a region or its inhabitants); a next neighbour. Formerly also said of a country.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > border dweller
marchman?a1380
marcher1384
bounder1542
borderera1552
border-man1620
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) IV. 40 One Inon a Walsch man Borderer onto Hym.
1579 G. Fenton in tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin Ep. Ded. All your neighbours and borderers.
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 113 The former [Corsica] being so neere a borderer to the latter [Sardegna], as they almost joyne.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. iv. 14 Borderers upon the Roman world.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. 224 The borderers of the Rhine and Danube.
c1854 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) iii. 164 Nabal..was a borderer on the wilderness.
b. figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > approximation > one who approaches or borders on
borderera1637
approximator1858
all-but1890
a1637 B. Jonson Timber 2528 in Wks. (1640) III The Poet is the neerest Borderer upon the Orator.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xliv. 305 Pride and Meanness..are..close borderers upon each other.
1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 31 Borderers on the savage state.
1858 W. E. Gladstone Stud. Homer III. 283 We keep the Phæacians..as borderers between the world of Greek experience, and the world of fable.
3. One who makes borders or bordering. black-borderer n. one who makes black-edged paper.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > maker of paper > [noun] > maker of specific type of paper
black-borderer1880
1880 Daily Tel. 9 Jan. (advt.) Black Borderer wanted.
1881 Glasgow Trades Direct. 806/1 Black Borderers.
4. = bordar n.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > serfdom > [noun] > serf > types of
villein regardant1443
helot1579
regardant1646
scallagc1700
borderer1771
bordar1776
mainmortable1779
native (or villein) of stock1828
Penest1835
adscript1837
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [noun] > by service or allegiance > in villeinage > at lord's pleasure
borderer1771
bordar1776
1771 E. Ledwich Antiquitates Sarisburienses 29 A hide and half of land, and the land of one borderer, in the same Town.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
<
n.a1513