mountain man

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mountain man (plural mountain men)

  1. (Canada, US, historical) A male trapper and explorer who lives in the wilderness.
    • 1963, Loren Fessler, The Editors of LIFE, “An Immense and Crowded Land”, in China (LIFE World Library)‎, New York: Time Incorporated, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10, column 1:
      In the frost-stunted birch forests on the Siberian border, sturdy, windburned mountain men trap beaver and pan for gold.

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