mountaineern.adj.

Brit.

/ˌmaʊntᵻˈnɪə/, U.S.

/ˌmaʊntəˈnɪ(ə)r/,

/ˌmaʊntnˈɪ(ə)r/

Forms: 1500s mountayneare, 1600s mountaineere, 1600s mountainier, 1600s mountayneere, 1600s mountineer, 1600s–1700s mountaneer, 1600s–1700s mountanier, 1600s– mountaineer, 1800s– montainier (U.S., in senses A. 2 and B. 2).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mountain n., -eer suffix¹.

Etymology: < mountain n. + -eer suffix¹. Compare French †montagnier (adjective) mountain-dwelling (1607; 12th cent. in Old French as montanier ; late 16th cent. in Middle French as montagnier , montaignier , montagnere ).With sense A. 5, compare earlier mountaineer v., mountaineering n. Compare earlier mountainer n.In senses A. 2 and B. 2 after French Montagnais Montagnais n. and adj.; with sense A. 2b compare etymological note s.v. Montagnais n. and adj.

A. n.

a. A person who is native to or lives in a mountainous region; (occasionally) such a person regarded as ignorant, uncivilized, or uneducated; (U.S.) a hillbilly. Cf. mountain man n. 1a.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller on high land

Highlandman1450

overlander1548

mountainer1577

mountaineer1599

highlander1614

mountainist1625

uplander1699

hillman1854

hill-woman1895

hillsider1898

tiersman1941

Montagnard1966

1599 T. Dallam Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) i. 29 We espied a great companye..of the afore sayde mountayneares.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 102 Yeeld Rusticke Mountaineer .

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. iii. 44 When wee were Boyes Who would beleeue that there were Mountayneeres, Dew-lapt [etc.] .

1630 M. Drayton Muses Elizium ii. 10 This Cleon was a Mountaineer.

1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Of Happy Life xvii. 222 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) The Mountanier makes the best Soldier.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 87 Huts or Cots of the Mountainiers.

1795 H. L. Piozzi Jrnl. 7 Apr. (1942) II. 919 Here has been a Riot at poor little Denbigh, not among the Townspeople.., but a sudden Descent of ill-disposed and worse-instructed Mountaineers—Servants to Farmers.

1821 Ld. Byron Two Foscari iii. i, in Sardanapalus 238 The longing sorrow Of the sad mountaineer, when far away.

1867 G. W. Harris Sut Lovingwood 19 A crowd of mountaineers full of fun, foolery, and mean whisky.

1881 Harper's Mag. Sept. 640/2 A thorough-bred, mossy-backed mountaineer.

1901 Nashville (Tennessee) Banner 28 Oct. 4/3 The New York Sun..employs that expressive provincialism of the Southern mountaineer, ‘servigrous’.

1949 H. Wilcox White Stranger vi. 126 A poor man from the mountains leads a quartet of white dogs. They are young table dogs, relished by the poor mountaineers but despised as food by the valley dwellers.

1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 322/1 Among..poor whites, migrant laborers, and mountaineers, air-conditioned living is not the norm.

b. U.S. A backwoodsman, a trapper; = mountain man n. 1b. Now rare.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > country dweller > [noun]

countrymanc1300

landmana1400

Jack (John) Upland1402

rurala1475

rustical?1532

rusticc1550

Jock upalanda1568

John Uponlanda1568

rustican1570

countrywoman1679

country cousin1692

ruralist1739

country mouse1750

backwoodsman1774

back-countryman1796

mountaineer1837

ruralite1841

mountain man1847

smock-frock1858

way back1890

woop woop1936

swamp Yankee1941

1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. 25 A totally different class has now sprung up, ‘the Mountaineers,’ the traders and trappers that scale the vast mountain chains.

1857 W. W. H. Davis El Gringo 318 [I] made the acquaintance of Kit Carson, the celebrated mountaineer.

1864 Rio Abajo Press 5 July 1/3 [Frémont] obtained the sobriquet of ‘Pathfinder’, in finding paths well known to Kit Carson and other mountaineers, who guided him.

1904 Chicago Evening Post 23 Aug. 7 In it [sc. a dunnage bag] the aspiring mountaineer may pack fifty pounds of necessities.

2. Usually with capital initial.

a. A member of an Algonquian people of southern Quebec and Labrador; = Montagnais n. 1. Now rare.

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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern Canada > [noun]

mountainer1625

Montagnais1654

mountaineer1703

Cree1760

Mistassini1781

Muskego1785

Red Indian1796

Chipewyan1801

Beothuk1828

red man1842

Naskapi1849

1703 tr. L. de Lahontan New Voy. N.-Amer. I. 230 The Nations that lye upon the River of St Laurence... The Papinachois. The Mountaneers. The Gaspesians. These speak the Algonkin Language.

1721 Massachusetts House of Representatives Jrnl. 3 111 [A letter bearing] the signature of the nations of the Abnaquoise, and of..The Mikemaks, The Mountaniers on the North-side.

1770 G. Cartwright Jrnl. (1792) I. 5 [The Beothuks are] descendants from some of the tribes upon the continent of America, and most probably from the Mountaineers of Labrador.

1800 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. VI. 17 There is evidently a great resemblance between the Skoffie and Mountaineer.

1828 J. McGregor Hist. Maritime Colonies Brit. Amer. xvi. 206 The natives, now dwindled to a few families of Mic-macs, Mountaineers and Boethics (Red Indians) are not included.

1894 11th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1889–90 267 The Indians of the Ungava district are locally known as Naskopie, a term of reproach applied to them by the mountaineers (the Montagnais of the early Jesuit missionaries).

1907 D. Wallace Ungava Bob vi. 68 No, 'twere no Mountaineers—them don't steal.

1977 Them Days Mar. 57 We were thought a great deal of by the Mountaineers and they would bring us pretty snowshoes and deer skin shoes.

b. = Chipewyan n. and adj. rare.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > North American > [noun] > Na-Dene > Athabaskan > Athabaskan languages > Chipewyan

Chipewyan1823

mountaineer1830

Loucheux1867

Montagnais1913

1830 J. Tanner in E. James Thirty Years Indian Captivity of John Tanner (1956) 391 They [sc. the Chip-pe-wi-yans] are called by the Canadians, and many white men residing in the Athavasca country, ‘Mountaineers’, which appellation they derive from the country of bleak and snowy rocks, which they inhabit.

1981 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians VI. 283/2 The frequent nineteenth- and twentieth-century French name [sc. for the Chipewyan Montagnais]..appears sometimes as English Mountainees..or Mountaineers.

†3. Scottish History. Usually with capital initial. A Cameronian; = mountain man n. 2. Obsolete.

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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > Presbyterian sects and groups > [noun] > Cameronian

Cameronian1690

mountain man1690

mountaineer1719

non-hearer1807

1719 A. Ramsay Epist. to J. Arbuckle 103 Nor Asgilite, nor Bess Clarksonian, Nor Mountaineer nor Mugletonian.

a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) vi. 239 Mr Hepburn was..the son of a celebrated mountaineer in Galloway, the Rev. Mr John Hepburn, in Queen Anne's time.

1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. IX. 162 Till lately, there existed a remnant of that old sect of Christians, the Cameronians, or Mountaineers as they were sometimes termed.

†4. French History. Usually with capital initial. A member of the ‘Mountain’, an extreme democratic party of the first French Revolution; = Montagnard n. 1. Obsolete.

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > French politics > [noun] > extreme party > member of

mountaineer1801

1801 W. Dupré Lexicographia-neologica Gallica 189 Montagnard, s.m. a mountaineer; a zealot for the French revolution...on the faith of a mountaineer, we will keep our word.

1802 Sketch of Paris II. liii. 197 The montagnards or mountaineers, that is, those monsters who were always thirsting for blood.

1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon II. ix. 345 The Mountaineers, his former associates.

1838 F. Shober tr. A. Thiers Hist. French Revol. III. 5 Their discontent had..begun with the quarrels between the Mountaineers and the Girondins.

5. A person who engages in or is skilled at mountain climbing.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [noun] > mountaineer or climber

rock climber1767

rockman1798

cragsman1816

cliffsman1829

mountaineer1860

Alpestrian1861

alpinist1861

cliffer1861

glissader1861

ascensionist1863

alpenstocker1864

shin-scraper1869

hillmana1885

second1907

Munro-bagger1910

summiteer1926

middleman1968

rock jock1980

free soloist1984

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xvi. 116 I had improved as a mountaineer since my ascent of Mont Blanc.

1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 221 The experienced mountaineer may have a rough and romantic walk by descending along the side of the Comb Gill ravine.

1935 Encycl. Sports, Games & Pastimes 431/2 No one should ever attempt a roped climb without at least one experienced mountaineer in the party.

1974 F. I. Preston Lady Doctor 28 [The disease] is still common among trampers and mountaineers.

1986 Z. Tomin Stalin's Shoe v. 72 Linda grabbed at that, like a falling mountaineer at a rope.

B. adj. (chiefly attributive).

1. Born in or inhabiting a mountainous region; that is a mountaineer (sense A. 1a).

ΚΠ

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 109 We saw..several Huts, or Houses of the Mountanier Inhabitants.

1883 American 6 92 The obstinate Unionism of the mountaineer farmers.

1964 S. M. Miller in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. xviii. 293 Southern mountaineer whites and Southern Negroes.

1976 New Yorker 8 Mar. 70/2 The Army had written to Mrs. Hamilton under the impression that she was just a mountaineer mother of a junior-high-school dropout and wouldn't know enough to write a letter to anyone.

1992 M. E. Marty & R. S. Appleby Glory & Power i. 14 Journalist H. L. Mencken and lawyer Clarence Darrow..portrayed fundamentalists as Bible Belt rednecks, mountaineer mossbacks, hillbillies and holy rollers who had no place in the modern world.

2. Usually with capital initial. Of, designating, or relating to the Mountaineers (sense A. 2) or their language; = Montagnais adj. Now rare.

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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern Canada > [adjective]

Cree1744

mountaineer1770

Naskapi1774

Chipewyan1801

Beothuk1842

Montagnais?1847

1770 G. Cartwright Jrnl. I. 28 I then landed on the south side, and saw very recent marks of Mountaineer Indians.

1792 G. Cartwright Jrnl. I. (explanation of frontispiece) His jacket.., sash, and rackets are Mountaineer.

1800 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. VI. 16 The ensuing vocabulary I transcribed vive voce from Gabriel, a young Mountaineer Indian.

1800 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. VI. 16 He spoke both French and English tolerably, and was well acquainted with the Skoffie, Micmac, and Mountaineer dialects.

1861 L. De Boilieu Recollections of Labrador Life 82 A small species of dog, called the Mountaineer dog, is very useful in directing the trapper to the beaver-houses.

1907 J. G. Millais Newfoundland 217 They had probably heard, perhaps from the Mountaineer Indians.., of the excellent trapping and hunting to be found in the island.

1977 Them Days Mar. 57 Hannah and me would slide on the Mountaineer sleds father would buy for us.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mountaineer
释义	mountaineern.adj. Brit. /ˌmaʊntᵻˈnɪə/, U.S. /ˌmaʊntəˈnɪ(ə)r/, /ˌmaʊntnˈɪ(ə)r/ Forms: 1500s mountayneare, 1600s mountaineere, 1600s mountainier, 1600s mountayneere, 1600s mountineer, 1600s–1700s mountaneer, 1600s–1700s mountanier, 1600s– mountaineer, 1800s– montainier (U.S., in senses A. 2 and B. 2). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mountain n., -eer suffix¹. Etymology: < mountain n. + -eer suffix¹. Compare French †montagnier (adjective) mountain-dwelling (1607; 12th cent. in Old French as montanier ; late 16th cent. in Middle French as montagnier , montaignier , montagnere ).With sense A. 5, compare earlier mountaineer v., mountaineering n. Compare earlier mountainer n.In senses A. 2 and B. 2 after French Montagnais Montagnais n. and adj.; with sense A. 2b compare etymological note s.v. Montagnais n. and adj. A. n. 1. a. A person who is native to or lives in a mountainous region; (occasionally) such a person regarded as ignorant, uncivilized, or uneducated; (U.S.) a hillbilly. Cf. mountain man n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller on high land Highlandman1450 overlander1548 mountainer1577 mountaineer1599 highlander1614 mountainist1625 uplander1699 hillman1854 hill-woman1895 hillsider1898 tiersman1941 Montagnard1966 1599 T. Dallam Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) i. 29 We espied a great companye..of the afore sayde mountayneares. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 102 Yeeld Rusticke Mountaineer . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. iii. 44 When wee were Boyes Who would beleeue that there were Mountayneeres, Dew-lapt [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1630 M. Drayton Muses Elizium ii. 10 This Cleon was a Mountaineer. 1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Of Happy Life xvii. 222 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) The Mountanier makes the best Soldier. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 87 Huts or Cots of the Mountainiers. 1795 H. L. Piozzi Jrnl. 7 Apr. (1942) II. 919 Here has been a Riot at poor little Denbigh, not among the Townspeople.., but a sudden Descent of ill-disposed and worse-instructed Mountaineers—Servants to Farmers. 1821 Ld. Byron Two Foscari iii. i, in Sardanapalus 238 The longing sorrow Of the sad mountaineer, when far away. 1867 G. W. Harris Sut Lovingwood 19 A crowd of mountaineers full of fun, foolery, and mean whisky. 1881 Harper's Mag. Sept. 640/2 A thorough-bred, mossy-backed mountaineer. 1901 Nashville (Tennessee) Banner 28 Oct. 4/3 The New York Sun..employs that expressive provincialism of the Southern mountaineer, ‘servigrous’. 1949 H. Wilcox White Stranger vi. 126 A poor man from the mountains leads a quartet of white dogs. They are young table dogs, relished by the poor mountaineers but despised as food by the valley dwellers. 1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 322/1 Among..poor whites, migrant laborers, and mountaineers, air-conditioned living is not the norm. b. U.S. A backwoodsman, a trapper; = mountain man n. 1b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > country dweller > [noun] countrymanc1300 landmana1400 Jack (John) Upland1402 rurala1475 rustical?1532 rusticc1550 Jock upalanda1568 John Uponlanda1568 rustican1570 countrywoman1679 country cousin1692 ruralist1739 country mouse1750 backwoodsman1774 back-countryman1796 mountaineer1837 ruralite1841 mountain man1847 smock-frock1858 way back1890 woop woop1936 swamp Yankee1941 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. 25 A totally different class has now sprung up, ‘the Mountaineers,’ the traders and trappers that scale the vast mountain chains. 1857 W. W. H. Davis El Gringo 318 [I] made the acquaintance of Kit Carson, the celebrated mountaineer. 1864 Rio Abajo Press 5 July 1/3 [Frémont] obtained the sobriquet of ‘Pathfinder’, in finding paths well known to Kit Carson and other mountaineers, who guided him. 1904 Chicago Evening Post 23 Aug. 7 In it [sc. a dunnage bag] the aspiring mountaineer may pack fifty pounds of necessities. 2. Usually with capital initial. a. A member of an Algonquian people of southern Quebec and Labrador; = Montagnais n. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern Canada > [noun] mountainer1625 Montagnais1654 mountaineer1703 Cree1760 Mistassini1781 Muskego1785 Red Indian1796 Chipewyan1801 Beothuk1828 red man1842 Naskapi1849 1703 tr. L. de Lahontan New Voy. N.-Amer. I. 230 The Nations that lye upon the River of St Laurence... The Papinachois. The Mountaneers. The Gaspesians. These speak the Algonkin Language. 1721 Massachusetts House of Representatives Jrnl. 3 111 [A letter bearing] the signature of the nations of the Abnaquoise, and of..The Mikemaks, The Mountaniers on the North-side. 1770 G. Cartwright Jrnl. (1792) I. 5 [The Beothuks are] descendants from some of the tribes upon the continent of America, and most probably from the Mountaineers of Labrador. 1800 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. VI. 17 There is evidently a great resemblance between the Skoffie and Mountaineer. 1828 J. McGregor Hist. Maritime Colonies Brit. Amer. xvi. 206 The natives, now dwindled to a few families of Mic-macs, Mountaineers and Boethics (Red Indians) are not included. 1894 11th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1889–90 267 The Indians of the Ungava district are locally known as Naskopie, a term of reproach applied to them by the mountaineers (the Montagnais of the early Jesuit missionaries). 1907 D. Wallace Ungava Bob vi. 68 No, 'twere no Mountaineers—them don't steal. 1977 Them Days Mar. 57 We were thought a great deal of by the Mountaineers and they would bring us pretty snowshoes and deer skin shoes. b. = Chipewyan n. and adj. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > North American > [noun] > Na-Dene > Athabaskan > Athabaskan languages > Chipewyan Chipewyan1823 mountaineer1830 Loucheux1867 Montagnais1913 1830 J. Tanner in E. James Thirty Years Indian Captivity of John Tanner (1956) 391 They [sc. the Chip-pe-wi-yans] are called by the Canadians, and many white men residing in the Athavasca country, ‘Mountaineers’, which appellation they derive from the country of bleak and snowy rocks, which they inhabit. 1981 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians VI. 283/2 The frequent nineteenth- and twentieth-century French name [sc. for the Chipewyan Montagnais]..appears sometimes as English Mountainees..or Mountaineers. †3. Scottish History. Usually with capital initial. A Cameronian; = mountain man n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > Presbyterian sects and groups > [noun] > Cameronian Cameronian1690 mountain man1690 mountaineer1719 non-hearer1807 1719 A. Ramsay Epist. to J. Arbuckle 103 Nor Asgilite, nor Bess Clarksonian, Nor Mountaineer nor Mugletonian. a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) vi. 239 Mr Hepburn was..the son of a celebrated mountaineer in Galloway, the Rev. Mr John Hepburn, in Queen Anne's time. 1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. IX. 162 Till lately, there existed a remnant of that old sect of Christians, the Cameronians, or Mountaineers as they were sometimes termed. †4. French History. Usually with capital initial. A member of the ‘Mountain’, an extreme democratic party of the first French Revolution; = Montagnard n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > French politics > [noun] > extreme party > member of mountaineer1801 1801 W. Dupré Lexicographia-neologica Gallica 189 Montagnard, s.m. a mountaineer; a zealot for the French revolution...on the faith of a mountaineer, we will keep our word. 1802 Sketch of Paris II. liii. 197 The montagnards or mountaineers, that is, those monsters who were always thirsting for blood. 1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon II. ix. 345 The Mountaineers, his former associates. 1838 F. Shober tr. A. Thiers Hist. French Revol. III. 5 Their discontent had..begun with the quarrels between the Mountaineers and the Girondins. 5. A person who engages in or is skilled at mountain climbing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [noun] > mountaineer or climber rock climber1767 rockman1798 cragsman1816 cliffsman1829 mountaineer1860 Alpestrian1861 alpinist1861 cliffer1861 glissader1861 ascensionist1863 alpenstocker1864 shin-scraper1869 hillmana1885 second1907 Munro-bagger1910 summiteer1926 middleman1968 rock jock1980 free soloist1984 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xvi. 116 I had improved as a mountaineer since my ascent of Mont Blanc. 1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 221 The experienced mountaineer may have a rough and romantic walk by descending along the side of the Comb Gill ravine. 1935 Encycl. Sports, Games & Pastimes 431/2 No one should ever attempt a roped climb without at least one experienced mountaineer in the party. 1974 F. I. Preston Lady Doctor 28 [The disease] is still common among trampers and mountaineers. 1986 Z. Tomin Stalin's Shoe v. 72 Linda grabbed at that, like a falling mountaineer at a rope. B. adj. (chiefly attributive). 1. Born in or inhabiting a mountainous region; that is a mountaineer (sense A. 1a). ΚΠ 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 109 We saw..several Huts, or Houses of the Mountanier Inhabitants. 1883 American 6 92 The obstinate Unionism of the mountaineer farmers. 1964 S. M. Miller in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. xviii. 293 Southern mountaineer whites and Southern Negroes. 1976 New Yorker 8 Mar. 70/2 The Army had written to Mrs. Hamilton under the impression that she was just a mountaineer mother of a junior-high-school dropout and wouldn't know enough to write a letter to anyone. 1992 M. E. Marty & R. S. Appleby Glory & Power i. 14 Journalist H. L. Mencken and lawyer Clarence Darrow..portrayed fundamentalists as Bible Belt rednecks, mountaineer mossbacks, hillbillies and holy rollers who had no place in the modern world. 2. Usually with capital initial. Of, designating, or relating to the Mountaineers (sense A. 2) or their language; = Montagnais adj. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern Canada > [adjective] Cree1744 mountaineer1770 Naskapi1774 Chipewyan1801 Beothuk1842 Montagnais?1847 1770 G. Cartwright Jrnl. I. 28 I then landed on the south side, and saw very recent marks of Mountaineer Indians. 1792 G. Cartwright Jrnl. I. (explanation of frontispiece) His jacket.., sash, and rackets are Mountaineer. 1800 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. VI. 16 The ensuing vocabulary I transcribed vive voce from Gabriel, a young Mountaineer Indian. 1800 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. VI. 16 He spoke both French and English tolerably, and was well acquainted with the Skoffie, Micmac, and Mountaineer dialects. 1861 L. De Boilieu Recollections of Labrador Life 82 A small species of dog, called the Mountaineer dog, is very useful in directing the trapper to the beaver-houses. 1907 J. G. Millais Newfoundland 217 They had probably heard, perhaps from the Mountaineer Indians.., of the excellent trapping and hunting to be found in the island. 1977 Them Days Mar. 57 Hannah and me would slide on the Mountaineer sleds father would buy for us. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mountaineerv. Brit. /ˌmaʊntᵻˈnɪə/, U.S. /ˌmaʊntəˈnɪ(ə)r/, /ˌmaʊntnˈɪ(ə)r/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mountaineer n. Etymology: < mountaineer n. Compare later mountaineer n. 5; in quot. 1802 perhaps directly after mountaineer n. 1. intransitive. To engage in mountain climbing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > mountaineer or climb [verb (intransitive)] mountaineer1802 1802 S. T. Coleridge Let. 9 Aug. (1956) II. 846 Spent the greater part of the next Day mountaineering. 1892 C. T. Dent et al. Mountaineering (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) ii. 61 Those who mountaineer in regions where the heights are undetermined must not depend on aneroids alone. 1941 R. Pitter Rude Potato 7 Tall, rangy, with great sunburned hands, He mountaineered in many lands. 1990 R. Carter & G. Kirkup Women in Engineering (BNC) 112 Wendy goes mountaineering and has involved her boyfriend in the sport. 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mountaineern.adj.

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