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Waterlander

Waterlander \Wa`ter*land"er\, Waterlandian \Wa`ter*land"i*an\n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a body of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century; -- so called from a district in North Holland denominated Waterland.

Usage examples of "waterlander".

Belonging to Bright Bay had been an incidental matter, useful when collecting bounty on Waterlander vessels fortuitously chanced upon, but little more.

Waterland was neither friend nor enemy of Hawk Haven, and a Waterlander ship might be willing to take them home on promise of future reward.

Derian had told her that the Waterlanders believed that the stars held the undying spirits of all who had walked on the earth.

He was saying that it should be a good year for saltwater fish if the Waterlanders were going to be selling their slaves to New Kelvin.

Unlike the Dragon Speaker, however, the Supreme Affluent held the post by merit of wealth alone, wealth calculated and assessed by a complicated formula that only the Waterlanders themselves understood.

Indeed, so the Waterlanders saw it as well, for they fled and not even their deep and abiding greed has made them attempt to claim as much as an inch of the foothills.