mountainer

English

Etymology

mountain +‎ -er

Noun

mountainer (plural mountainers)

  1. (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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