borderer

border +‎ -er

borderer (plural borderers)

1. A person who resides near a border.
   • 1904, The Border Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume 9, page 208:

     The Borderers on the English side rieved, harried, and plundered each other with as much keenness and audacity as did the Scots on the other side.

   • 1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:

     " […] and as Mr. H., with his long purse and his willingness to receive hints, is no bad card in the game, he has been brought up to Abbotsford for a week; his taciturnity has long ago fled, and he is one of the most loquacious Borderers going. […] "

2. A soldier of a border regiment in the British Army (Border Regiment, South Wales Borderers, King's Own Scottish Borderers).

• frontiersman

• reborder