tomahawk settler (English, noun)
expansion: tomahawk settler (plural tomahawk settlers)
Senses:
glosses: 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.
tags: US
historical
Forms:
form: tomahawk settlers
tags: plural