DCHP-3

trail-cutter

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a person who cuts or breaks a trail through the bush.

See: trailblazer (def. 2),trailbuilder(def. 1),trail-maker(def. 3)

Quotations

1858
The majority of the Lillooet trail cutters would have remained had it not been grossly mismanaged. . . .
1958
Normally, the trail-cutters work a four-month season in the winter; when spring comes and the ground begins to thaw, they must get out--and fast.