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plural borderers
A person who resides near a border. quotations examples
The Borderers on the English side rieved, harried, and plundered each other with as much keenness and audacity as did the Scots on the other side.
1904, The Border Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume 9, page 208
" […] and as Mr. H., with his long purse and his willingness to receive hints, is no bad card in the game, he has been brought up to Abbotsford for a week; his taciturnity has long ago fled, and he is one of the most loquacious Borderers going. […] "
1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90
A soldier of a border regiment in the British Army (Border Regiment, South Wales Borderers, King's Own Scottish Borderers). examples