< 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
BOER, the Dutch form of the Eng. “boor,” in its original signification of husbandman (Ger. Bauer), a name given to the Dutch farmers of South Africa, and especially to the Dutch population of the Transvaal and Orange River States. (See South Africa and Transvaal.)
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