Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An islander; specifically [capitalized], an inhabitant of the Hebrides or Western Islands of Scotland.
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Examples
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"Dat was de time de Li'n was lost -- wasn't it?" inquired another islesman.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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Scottish islesman, and related to the Earl of Antrim, to whose patronage he owed the command assigned him in the Irish troops.
A Legend of Montrose Walter Scott 1801
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M’Donnell, by birth a Scottish islesman, and related to the Earl of
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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Many were slain on the field, and such a number in the pursuit, that above one-third of the Covenanters were reported to have fallen; in which number, however, must be computed a great many fat burgesses who broke their wind in the flight, and thus died without stroke of sword. named Alister, or Alexander M ` Donnell, by birth a Scottish islesman, and related to the Earl of Antrim, to whose patronage he owed the command assigned him in the Irish troops.
A Legend of Montrose 1871
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