| 单词 | tomahawk settler |
| 释义 | > as lemmastomahawk settler tomahawk settler n. North American rare (now historical) a settler who stakes a claim to a piece of land by carrying out nominal improvements to it, esp. by cutting or marking trees for clearing using a hatchet or tomahawk; cf. tomahawk improvement n. ΚΠ 1788 M. Cutler Jrnl. 15 Sept. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 425 Stopped and breakfasted at a little clump of houses on the Indian side. They were tomahawk settlers. 1967 L. Reed Warning in Appalachia iii. 38 Fort Neal at Parkersburg on the Ohio River was built in 1785, though there were tomahawk settlers nearby as early as 1770. < as lemmas |
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