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voorlooper

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voorlooper (plural voorloopers)

  1. (obsolete) One who goes ahead to reconnoitre; a scout.
    • 1902, Henry Rider Haggard, Rural England: Being an Account of Agricultural and Social Researches Carried Out in the Years 1901 & 1902:
      Yet there are the 'lands,' S lands, most of them, along which the oxen must have walked and their drivers and voorloopers trudged, since none can dispute the actual evidence that their appearance affords.
    • 1921, H. Rider Haggard, She and Alan:
      I made up two of the smouldering fires, the light of which the voorlooper had seen upon the sky.