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English
Etymology
From mountain + -er.
Noun
mountainer (plural mountainers)
- (obsolete) A person who lives in a mountainous area.
- Synonyms: highlander, mountaineer
1598, John Dee, transl., Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Gouernment, London: Adam Islip, Book 5, Chapter 3, p. 267:[…] in the Countrey of Attica there were as many factions as there were diuerse sorts of the territorie: for the Mountainers were Democraticall; those of the champion countrey, Oligarchical; and they that dwelt neer the sea, desired a middle kind of gouernement […]
1614, Walter Raleigh, The History of the World, London: Walter Burre, Part 1, Book 5, Chapter 3, p. 427:He also sent Embassadors to the Mountainers of the Pyrenes, & to the Gaules, to obtaine a quiet passage:
1693, Thomas Pope Blount, A Natural History, London: R. Bentley, page 374:Vossius […] makes the highest MOUNTAIN there not to exceed Ten Furlongs; Which, saith Vossius, it is scarce possible for any one to reach, unless he be a Mountainer born; any other will scarce be able to ascend above Six Furlongs perpendicular;
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