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Definition of Bywoners
1. bywoner [n] - See also: bywoner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bywoners
Literary usage of Bywoners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Africander Land by Archibald Ross Colquhoun (1906)
"... whose near neighbours were a family of Dutch bywoners who came ... a large
number of bywoners, who were among the most obstinate of the burgher troops. ..."
2. The New Era in South Africa: With an Examination of the Chinese Labour Question by Violet Rosa Markham (1904)
"In the Orange Biver Colony the procedure adopted with the bywoners was somewhat
different. Indigent Burgher Settlements have not been organised there to the ..."
3. The New South Africa: Its Value and Development by William Edwin Bleloch (1902)
"The bywoners, as a class, being tenants at will, do nothing to improve the land;
they grow just enough to supply themselves with food. ..."
4. With the Guard's Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back by Edward P. Lowry (1902)
"With the exception of a few officials these men consist of ignorant "bywoners,"
augmented by desperate men from the Cape who have nothing to lose, ..."
5. "Cape Times" Law Reports: A Record of Every Matter Disposed of in the by Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Supreme Court (1898)
"Weit any of his servants or ''bywoners" to pollute the water he would send them off
... Several Urne*he had gone tosee that hie" bywoners " did imitate the ..."
6. Dictionary of Historical Allusions by Harbottle, Thomas Benfield, d. 1904 (1904)
"bywoners. Boers in the Transvaal and Orange Free State who had no land of their
own, and lived by working on the farms of others, or sometimes as small ..."
7. Lord Milner and South Africa by Ernest Bruce Iwan-Müller (1902)
"... allowed to reside in the Transvaal; but such a law would have led to the
immediate expulsion of a large number of bywoners and other destitute burghers. ..."
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