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Noun
voorlooper (plural voorloopers)
- (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.