What does the word settler mean?
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Part of speech: present participle
Usage examples for settler
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As I surveyed the busy scene below me, the gentleman who accompanied me to the summit of the mountain, informed me that forty- three years ago his father was the first settler, and that then there was but his one hut in the place where now stood the splendid town. – Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)
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That there old settler, I have crossed a few words with him, and I believe he would do noble to travel with. – Lahoma by John Breckinridge Ellis
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Whenever the Indians attacked a settlement, the settler who saw them first took his gun and fired it three times. – Stories of American Life and Adventure by Edward Eggleston