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Vermonter

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Ver·mont  (vr-mnt) Abbr. VT or Vt.
A state of the northeast United States bordering on Canada. It was admitted as the 14th state in 1791. Explored by Samuel de Champlain in 1609, the region was first permanently settled by the British in 1724. Claims to the area were relinquished by Massachusetts in 1781, New Hampshire in 1782, and New York in 1790. Montpelier is the capital and Burlington the largest city. Population: 621,000.

Ver·monter n.

Vermonter [vɜːˈmɒntə]
n
(Placename) a native or inhabitant of Vermont
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Noun1.Vermonter - a native or resident of Vermont
American - a native or inhabitant of the United States


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Thayer is a Vermonter who has climbed the ladder of experience from its lower rungs to the top.
There weekly arrive in this town scores of green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery.
Now, if you take into account that all this was to be worked out by a set of lazy, twaddling, shiftless laborers, who had grown up, all their lives, in the absence of every possible motive to learn how to do anything but `shirk,' as you Vermonters say, and you'll see that there might naturally be, on his plantation, a great many things that looked horrible and distressing to a sensitive child, like me.
 
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