pinelandern.
/ˈpʌɪnˌlandə/, U.S. /ˈpaɪnˌlændər/ Chiefly U.S.
A person who lives on and derives a living from pineland, esp. in the southern United States.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller in forest or wood
forester1513
forestress1513
sylvan1589
woodlander1774
pinelander1838
1838–9 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation (1863) 92 He gave me a..description of the Yeomanry of Georgia—more properly termed pinelanders.
1890 Harper's Mag. Apr. 790/1 Quaint and indolent pine-landers and degraded swamp-dwellers, have all supplied our literary comedians with unique characters.
1922 H. Kephart Our Southern Highlanders (new ed.) 433 These freedman were pushed further and further back upon more and more sterile soil. They became ‘pine-landers’ or ‘piney-woods-people’..or ‘crackers’.
1988 Independent 8 Oct. (Mag.) 43/2 These descendants of frontier people and pinelanders.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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