trekboer

English

Alternative forms

trek Boer, Trekboer

Noun

trekboer (plural trekboers)

(now historical) A nomadic pastoralist descended from European settlers on the frontiers of the Dutch Cape Colony in Southern Africa.
- 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 82:
  Indigenous protest was tied up with the resistance of enslaved peoples and trekboers.

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