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- noun Plural form of
bywoner .
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Examples
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"bywoners," augmented by desperate men from the Cape who have nothing to lose, and who lead a jolly rollicking life on commando, stealing and looting from the farmers who have surrendered, and whom they opprobriously call "handsuppers!"
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry
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White workers, bywoners* and poor whites had nothing to fear from
Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 17 Ray Esther 1969
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These bywoners believe any preposterous story their leaders tell them in order to keep them together.
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry
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There was this difference, that these _bywoners_ became
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry
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These men linked to the bywoners, or squatters, the penniless Dutch of South Africa, did little to help the cause they espoused, but many a time have caused every honest God-fearing burgher to blush by reason of their irrepressible lawlessness.
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry
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