DCHP-3

pioneer

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1†n.

a settler who helps to open up a part of a country.

Quotations

1833
. . . such is the uncertainty in which we poor pioneers are left.
1965
Pioneers . . . conceived the idea of a plank road between the two villages. . . .
2n.

a railway track-laying machine that works at the head of steel (def. 1).

See: steel(def. 1)

Quotations

1913
After two or three lengths of rail have been laid in this way, the pioneer gives two short hoots, the two locomotives behind give a few puffs, and the pioneer and the whole train advance some twenty or thirty feet; the pioneer then gives one hoot as a signal for the train to stop.