Boer
BOER, the Dutch form of the Eng. "boor," in its original signification of husbandman (Ger. Bauer), a name given to the Dutch farmers of South Africa, and especially to the Dutch population of the Transvaal and Orange River States. (See South Africa and Transvaal.)
Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)
