borderers's Usage Examples:

He was commissioned in the King's Own Scottish borderers on 9 March 1890.

Under these circumstances, Nathaniel Bacon (1647-1676), whose grandfather was a cousin of Francis Bacon, took up the cause of the borderers and severely punished the Indians at the battle of Bloody Run.

These terms were never kept, despite the earnest remonstrances of the king, and the complaints of the aggrieved borderers.

Between 1707 and 1740 many Scottish immigrants, traders, teachers and tobacco-growers settled along the upper Rappahannock, and, uniting with the borderers in general, they offered strong resistance to the older planters on the James and the York.

Boyd, with some borderers, Hepburn and Ker of Cessford, seized the boy king, and Boyd had himself made governor, his son marrying the princess Mary, sister of James.

But a pretender backed by Scottish spears did not appeal to the sympathies of the English borderers.

Synonyms:

habitant, indweller, dweller, inhabitant, denizen,

Antonyms:

nonresident, inactivation,