[f. back settle-ment: see BACK a. 1 b.] One who lives in the back settlements of a colony or new country; a settler in the back-woods.
1809. Southey, in Q. Rev., II. 322. Individual wickedness on the part of the traders and back-settlers. Ibid. (1829), Sir T. More (1831), II. 190. What to the American back-settler seems the perfection of wild independence.
