Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An inhabitant or a settler of the plains, especially of the prairie regions of the United States.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dweller on the plains.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who lives in the plains.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A native, inhabitant or settler of a
plains region, but especially of the United Statesprairies
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an inhabitant of a plains region (especially the Great Plains of North America)
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Examples
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In those rarefied heights where normal activities for a plainsman are a torture, waging a war would seem to be an impossible proposition.
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In those rarefied heights where normal activities for a plainsman are a torture, waging a war would seem to be an impossible proposition.
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It is just as they pass the village of the prairie dogs that he points to the low valley down to the front and questions the "plainsman" who lopes along by his side, --
Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier Charles King 1888
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“A plainsman could kill an American bison, cut out only the tongue for his dinner, and discard the rest of the animal.”
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Yes | No | Report from plainsman wrote 20 weeks 3 days ago
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What the world mourns is its lost innocence, or a favorite fantasy of it fleshed out in the most heroic of American myths: that of the taut but merciful plainsman, who dispenses justice with a worried conscience, a single syllable, a blurred reflex action to the hip, and must face death in the afternoon as regularly as the matador, but on main street and for no pay...
Maria Cooper Janis: Gary Cooper: A Father, a Man, an American Maria Cooper Janis 2011
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Yes | No | Report from plainsman wrote 20 weeks 3 days ago
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Yes | No | Report from plainsman wrote 20 weeks 3 days ago
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Yes | No | Report from plainsman wrote 20 weeks 3 days ago
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A hundred and fifty years ago a plainsman could kill an American bison, cut out only the tongue for his dinner, and discard the rest of the animal.
Part 2--An Examination of the Tragedy of the Commons: Pollution 2009
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