Confiner

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Confiner \Con*fin"er\, n.
     One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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.
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           Happy confiners you of other lands,
           That shift your soil, and oft 'scape tyrants' hands.
                                                    --Daniel.
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