DCHP-3

conductor

[< Cdn F conducteur]
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

the pilot or guide in charge of a brigade of canoes or other vessels, or of one vessel only.

See: guide ((n.))(def. 1)

Quotations

1761
. . . to every three or four canoes, which constitute a brigade, there is a guide or conductor.
1821
The whole equipment was under the command . . . of an individual who was styled the conductor.
2n.

a person engaged in effecting the escape of slaves by way of the Underground Railway.

Quotations

1852
I was formerly, while residing East, a conductor of a car on the Underground Railroad, I felt a desire to get the perusal of said paper, so that I might be able to keep track of the progress that is being made by a portion of mankind who were so unfortunate as to receive their birth in a land of slavery.