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/sˈɛtələr/ /sˈɛtlər/ Listen

noun

Settler n.

One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc.

Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England.

That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which settles or decides a contest. (Colloq.)

A vessel, as a tub, in which something, as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.

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"Settler" Quotes from Famous Books

... this little circular town seen in the picture? It is the beginning of Coraltown, just as the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth was the beginning of Massachusetts. Now we will see how it grows. First of all, notice this curious fact, that each settler, after once choosing a home, never after stirs from that spot; but, from day to day, fastens himself more and more firmly to the rock where he first stuck. The part of his body touching the rock hardens into stone, and as the months and years go by, the sides of his body, too, ...

— The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children • Jane Andrews

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... a building material was not resorted to, except to a trifling extent, in this country until long after the need of such a solid substance was felt. The early settler contented himself with the log cabin, the corduroy road, and the wooden bridge, and loose stone enough for foundation purposes could readily be gathered from the surface of the earth. Even after the desirability of more handsome and durable building material ...

— Scientific American Supplement No. 360, November 25, 1882 • Various

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... The Australian settler looked again more closely at Elsie, and acknowledged to himself, as well as to Miss Rennie, that she was ...

— Mr. Hogarth's Will • Catherine Helen Spence

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... white settler, rages the world-old, world-wide war of hereditary land-ownership against those who beg their brother man for leave to live and toil. William Penn disclaimed the right of conquest as a land title, while he himself held an English ...

— Half a Century • Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm

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... processes of Spain, Portugal, and France were military, while those of the Anglo-Saxon world were commercial and peaceful. Is it not a commonplace that in India, quite as much as in the New World, the trader and the settler drove out the soldier and the conqueror? The difference between the two methods was that one was a process of conquest, and the other of colonizing, or non-military administration for commercial purposes. The one embodied the sordid ...

— Peace Theories and the Balkan War • Norman Angell

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