tomahawk settler

English

Noun

tomahawk settler (plural tomahawk settlers)

  1. (US, historical) An early settler in the American frontier during the mid-to-late 18th century who established informal claims to land through a practice by marking trees by girdling them or blazing their names or initials on the bark.
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