forerider
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From fore- + rider. Compare German Vorreiter.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]forerider (plural foreriders)
- Someone who rides at the front; a scout, or someone in the vanguard.
- 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:, Book V:
- So within a whyle cam in the foreryders, that is for to say Sir Bors, Sir Bedwere, Sir Lyonell, and Sir Gawayne that was sore wounded […].