mountainer

plural mountainers

1. obsoleteA person who lives in a mountainous area.

   He also sent Embassadors to the Mountainers of the Pyrenes, & to the Gaules, to obtaine a quiet passage:

   1614, Walter Raleigh, The History of the World, London: Walter Burre, Part 1, Book 5, Chapter 3, p. 427

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   […] 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 […]

   1598, John Dee, transl., Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Gouernment, London: Adam Islip, Book 5, Chapter 3, p. 267

   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;

   1693, Thomas Pope Blount, A Natural History, London: R. Bentley, page 374

   Synonyms: highlander, mountaineer