backsettler

English

Etymology

back +‎ settler

Noun

backsettler (plural backsettlers)

1. One living in the back or outlying districts of a community.
   • a. 1859, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Sir William Temple:

     the English backsettlers of Leinster and Munster

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “backsettler”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)