Hypertext Webster Gateway: "confiner"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Confiner \Con*fin"er\, n.
One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Confiner \Con"fi`ner\ (? or ?), n.
One who lives on confines, or near the border of a country; a
borderer; a near neighbor. [Obs.] --Bacon.
Happy confiners you of other lands, That shift your
soil, and oft 'scape tyrants' hands. --Daniel.
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