[f. FRONTAGE + -ER1.]
1. An owner of land or property adjoining: a. the sea-shore.
1622. Callis, Stat. Sewers (1647), 25. The Frontagers have claimed those grounds so left, by a pretended Custome of Frontagers.
1866. Pall Mall G., 4 Dec. The free use and enjoyment of the sea-shore … giving to the frontager … such a title as may not be inconsistent with those rights.
1885. Law Rep., 14 Q. Bench Div. 570. The liability of a frontager to repair a sea-wall … can only be ascertained by usage.
b. a roadway.
1739. Bewholm Inclos. Act, 6. Messuagers, cottagers and frontagers.
1880. Ld. Thesiger, in Law Rep., Exch. Div. V. 206. Several frontagers called upon to pay the expenses of paving a street.
1890. The Saturday Review, LXIX. 10 May, 559/2. Mr. Forbes would willingly carry a new line along the proposed route of the Central London Railway, with the permission of the frontagers and owners.
2. One who lives on a frontier. rare–1.
1893. S. L. Poole, Auranzeb, vi. 115. Mir Junda’s disastrous campaign in Assam was typical of many attempts to subdue the North-east frontagers of India.
