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residenter noun An inhabitant of the mountains, especially an older one or one of long standing. [ OED labels this usage "Scotland and U.S."]

1788 French Broad Petitions 3 [A] land office shall be opened for that purpose of entering such lands, that is to each settler or residenter a survey of six Hundred and forty Acres att as low Rates as possible. 1939 Hall Coll (Nine Mile Creek TN) This here's the old residenter bear hunter. 1970 Foster Walker Valley 59 The old man John Huskey was the oldest residenter that I knew that lived up here.

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