• (n.) One who, or that which, limits or restrains. • (n.) One who lives on confines, or near the border of a country; a borderer; a near neighbor. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/confiner/
Con'fi`ner noun One who lives on confines, or near the border of a country; a borderer; a near neighbor. [ Obsolete] Bacon. « Happy confiners you of other lands, That shift your soil, and oft 'scape tyrants' hands. Daniel. » Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/133