0 a person who lives on the border between cultivated land (= land used to grow crops) and wild land, especially in the past in the US:
There was a lot else about these frontiersmen which it was safer to simply ignore.
What was their reaction when groups of frontiersmen arrived in the capital as lords and masters?
She introduces us to the masters, a community of frontiersmen (and women) known as veeboeren (stock farmers).
Now that almost the whole world has been explored by man, these people are the true frontiersmen of the twentieth century.
Few experienced frontiersmen took part in the campaign; many instead paid recent immigrants to take their place.
Most were frontiersmen, hard, independent, and resourceful, but a few were cultured, educated gentlemen who arrived with resources.
He was noted as an expert marksman, frontiersman and hunter.
The story concludes with her acceptance that her daughter will marry a frontiersman and go west to even wilder country.