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countryman(dictionary)

guttur (iou) and countryman (iou)


guttur (iou)



guttur noun. Now rare. M16.
[Latin: see GUTTURAL.]
The throat of a person or an animal.

countryman (iou)



countryman noun. Pl. -men. ME.
[from COUNTRY + MAN noun.]
A man (in pl. also, people) of a (specified or indicated) country or district. ME.
North countryman: see NORTH. WHAT countryman?
A man (in pl. also, people) of one's own country; a compatriot. Usu. with possess. LME.
B. Jowett Simonides is a countryman of yours.
A man (in pl. also, people) living in the country, esp. one following country ways. L16.
countryman's treacle (now dial.) (a) garlic, Allium sativum; (b) rue, Ruta graveolens.
A. F. Douglas-Home My father was a countryman, and a naturalist, and on the right interpretation of wind or weather depended the action of the day.