Fladry vs Frontier - What's the difference?
fladry | frontier |
A string of flags (usually red) used to demarcate boundaries that contain wildlife such as wolves, and deter them from crossing.
* 2010, Chadwick, Douglas H., Wolf Wars , (March 2010), page #:41
* 2005 , People and Wildlife: Conflict Or Co-existence? , by Rosie Woodroffe, Simon J. Thirgood, Alan Rabinowitz; page 62:
That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.
* 1979 , Richard Elphic and Hermann Guilomee (editors), The shaping of South African Society, 1652 - 1820 , page 297:
(obsolete) An outwork of a fortification.
* Shakespeare
Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous.
As a noun fladry
is a string of flags (usually red) used to demarcate boundaries that contain wildlife such as wolves, and deter them from crossing.As a proper noun frontier is
an unincorporated community in minnesota.fladry
English
(fladry)Noun
- To visually warn wolves away from other pastures, Brown sometimes turns to the old European technique called fladry , stringing wire with bright flags along its length.
- Fladries', brightly coloured flags sewn on ropes ('''Fladry''': Table 4.3), have been used for hunting wolves (Canis lupus) in Europe for centuries. Most wolves fear ' fladries and rarely cross such barriers.
frontier
English
Noun
(en noun)- Unlike a boundary, which evokes the image of a line on a map and demarcates spheres of political control, the frontier is an area where colonisation is taking place....no authority is recognised as legitimate by all parties or is able to excersise undisputed control over the area.
- Palisadoes, frontiers , parapets.
Adjective
(head)- a frontier town