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Webster 1913 Edition

(boōr)

Noun.

[D.

boer

farmer, boor; akin to AS.

gebūr

countryman, G.

bauer

; fr. the root of AS.

būan

to inhabit, and akin to E.

bower

. Cf.

, and

to build.]

A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.

A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.

A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.

Noun.

A countryman; a peasant; a rustic; a plowman; a clown; hence, one who is rude in manners, and illiterate.