mountain boy
noun
1 US History a member of a military company from a mountainous area, in earlier use especially from Vermont.
2 Generally a boy or man from a mountainous area.
Origin
Late 18th century; earliest use found in Alexander Hamilton (bap. 1739, d. 1802), physician and obstetrician.
- middle level
- middle life
- middle line
- middle linebacker
- Middle Low German
- middleman
- middle management
- middle manager
- middlemanship
- middle market
- middle market price
- middle mast
- middle mediastinum
- middle-middle
- middle-middle-class
- middlemost
- middle name
- middleness
- middle night
- middle-of-the-road
- middle-of-the-roadism
- middle-of-the-roadness
- middle oil
- middle order
- middle passage