country n Cp DARE ~ n 2 d ~ man (1931-) for comb in sense 3.
   1 1987 Nfld Studies iii (2), 252 [In the Second World War] the country was headed for the greatest boom it had ever known.
   2 1984 POWELL 38 I had my dickie hauled over my sweater, which was all I wore back in the country. Back there you spent most of your time in heavy forest, which was warmer. 1986 SAUNDERS 21 Other men harnessed teams of dogs to loaded slides and went 'in the country' to trap lynx and otter and fox.

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