Crossword clues for borderer
borderer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Borderer \Bor"der*er\, n. One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region.
Borderers of the Caspian.
--Dyer.
Wiktionary
n. A person who resides near a border.
WordNet
n. an inhabitant of a border area (especially the border between Scotland and England)
Usage examples of "borderer".
Little Men would accept me as their leader among the Borderer leaders of the battle?
Your Borderer is not used to fanciful titles, or ones that come strangely to the tongue.
It was a smallish, blond man the stranger wanted, a young man, a borderer, the rider of the horse that imaged himself as fire, pain and dark: those who knew Stuart called the creature Burn.
Yeats and the borderer sat down, and the silence was thick enough you could breathe it.
Little Men, who fight on foot, with spears, charge the Hollow Men first when they are unprepared, then open lanes through their ranks for the Borderers when the Hollow Men begin to turn and fight.
He had read once, in an excellent book on the Scottish Border, how most Borderers could put an armed force out of bed in the middle of the night and into the saddle, ready for the hot pursuit of raiders who had driven off their cattle, within something like twenty minutes or so.
Herrac, here, was setting out to kidnap an envoy and a chest of gold belonging to the King of Scotland, without even having bothered to check with his fellow Borderers, to see if they would help in the battle that was planned to result from the kidnapping.
Meanwhile, he should see about whether his Borderers will gather and join forces with the Little Men, should I be able to get the Little Men to come into a fight on our side with all of the Hollow Men.
Yes, I have sent messengers to certain of the other Borderers, as you wished.
As a fighting man, you must see that for yourself, and I would trust that the other Borderers you talked to, also being fighting men, would also see it.
I tell them of these things, do you have time to get to the Hollow Men and also meet with the Borderers, themselves?
We know there are more than enough Borderers to win such a battle by themselves.
Now, why do you want to mix Little Men and Borderers together to make a force to destroy the Hollow Men, when it is not necessary?
But for another, there may come an even more important time some time in the future, when it will be necessary for all of you, and all of the Borderers, to join forces against some common enemy.
If Ardac decides to fight with the Borderers as you wish, then all the other schiltron-leaders will be ready to fight with him.