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Boer

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Boer  (br, bôr, br)
n.
A Dutch colonist or descendant of a Dutch colonist in South Africa.
[Afrikaans, from Dutch, farmer, from Middle Dutch gheboer, peasant; see bheu- in Indo-European roots.]
Boer
Noun
a descendant of any of the Dutch or Huguenot colonists who settled in South Africa [Dutch]
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Noun1.Boer - a white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans
Afrikander, Afrikaner
South African - a native or inhabitant of South Africa
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I thought so--and an hour's ride from your farm lives a Boer with four fingers only on his right hand.
Nada The Lily by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
A little longer, and the shaggy Boer was in our midst upon his shaggy pony, with a half-scared, half-incredulous look in his deep-set eyes.
Raffles, Further Adventures Of The Amateur Cracksman by Hornung, E. W. View in context
- but after all, I was never really in danger, except the time when I carried the despatches for the colonel and rode straight into a Boer ambush.
The Yellow Crayon by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
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