trekboer

English

Alternative forms

• trek Boer, Trekboer

Noun

trekboer (plural trekboers)

1. (now historical) A nomadic pastoralist descended from European settlers on the frontiers of the Dutch Cape Colony in Southern Africa.
   • 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 82:

     Indigenous protest was tied up with the resistance of enslaved peoples and trekboers.