backsettler

English

Etymology

From back +‎ settler.

Noun

backsettler (plural backsettlers)

1. One living in the back or outlying districts of a community.

   Synonym: ruralite

   • a. 1859, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Sir William Temple:

     the English backsettlers of Leinster and Munster

References

• “backsettler”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.