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trailblazer †
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a man knowledgeable about life on the trail in wild country.
See: trailman
Quotations
1942
"You never were much of a trail blazer. Could a man make it up to the lake, cut across to the South Fork and get out down to the Beach by Sunday night?"
1948
The crowd of idle fellows got a great kick out of the old "trail blazer."
2n.
a person who cuts or breaks a trail through the bush.
See: trail-cutter
Quotations
1958
Let us join the trail blazers as they marked out a route.
1965
. . . Mac Kirk [was] one of the Owen Sound trailblazers. . . .
3n.
one who leads the way into new fields; pathfinder.
Quotations
1955
He was the trail-blazer, the pathfinder in whose wake the tide of empire rolled westward.
1963
It [gold] drew men from all walks of life, converting them into trail-blazers and town founders.