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settler

• 1 n. a person who settles in a new country or in another part of the same country, usually on the frontier.

• 2a n. Lab. See quote.

• 2b n. See quote 1947.

• 3 n. a small farmer and part-time logger and trapper in Northern Ontario, especially a French-speaking Canadian.

  See also: colonist (def. 3)