down-easter

[ doun-ee-ster ]

noun

1. a full-rigged ship built in New England in the late 19th century, usually of wood and relatively fast.
2. a native or inhabitant of Maine.
3. a native or inhabitant of New England.
4. Canadian. a native or resident of the Atlantic Provinces.

Word History and Origins

Origin of down-easter¹

An Americanism dating back to 1810–20; down East + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Calico rather shuns me, as a general thing, my Down-easter, on account of my plain speaking.

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But to think of that old Down-Easter being related to the Warren family!

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I exclaimed, halting suddenly, 'there is living critters here, as I'm a Down-easter.'

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He was a pretty considerable thorough-bred down-easter; and it was not strange that John Bull detected him.

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He had been in his youth a tall and rather lanky down-easter.

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