DCHP-3

foregoer

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

in a dog team, the dog, sometimes a female, who leads the team, setting the pace and carrying out the driver's commands. See pictures at fan hitch and tandem hitch.

See: leader(def. 2)

Quotations

1873
It is the business of the "foregoer" to keep the track however faint it may be on the lake or river.
1921
With a final rush the gaunt, travel-worn dogs galloped through the driving snow, and, eager for the shelter of the trading room, bolted pell-mell through the gathering in the doorway, upsetting several spectators before the driver could halt the runaways by falling headlong upon the foregoer's back and flattening him to the floor.
1963
Of the remaining three [dogs] . . . Carlo, the foregoer and Wolf, the steerer, showed symptoms of the disease.
2n.

a man on snowshoes who runs ahead of a dog team making a passable track in new or deep snow.

Quotations

1934
Already the Indian foregoer had slid his moccasined feet into his snowshoe thongs and was headed for the gateway. . . .
1955
[He was] a fore-goer, a hardy runner who trotted ahead of the dog-teams to break trail after a snowfall or in unmarked country.