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Definition of Incomer
1. n. One who comes in.
Definition of Incomer
1. Noun. An outsider who moves to a community or a place, as used by those who consider themselves to be its original inhabitants. ¹
2. Noun. One who comes in. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incomer
1. one that comes in [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incomer
Literary usage of Incomer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Farmer's Encyclopædia, and Dictionary of Rural Affairs: Embracing All by Cuthbert William Johnson (1844)
"The incomer cannot enter to plough'without permission till Lady-day. ... He cannot
plough for fallo»! or spring crops without the authority of the incomer, ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law and Practice of Agricultural Tenancies by George Wingrove Cooke, G. Prior Goldney, William Russell Griffiths (1882)
"... of the country that the incoming tenant shall be liable to the outgoer for
his allowances, and wherein actions have been commenced against the incomer, ..."
3. British Farmer's Magazine (1872)
"The payment itself is based on the supposition that within a few years he will
reap the benefit, and it is because he (the incomer) reaps the benefit ..."