forelooperforelopern.
/ˈfɔːluːpə/, /ˈfɔːləʊpə/, U.S. /ˈfɔrˌlupər/, /ˈfɔrˌloʊpər/, South African English /ˈfɔːluːpə/, /ˈfɔːloʊpə/ South African.
A boy who walks with the foremost pair of a team of oxen, in order to guide them.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > ploughman or woman > controller of draught animals
driverc1390
plough driver?c1475
gadsman?a1500
ploughboy1544
goadster1837
forelooper1863
1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting iv. 95 I managed to start on March 31, with only a driver and foreloper.
1881 G. M. Fenn Off to Wilds iii. 21 The foreloper, whose duty it is to walk with the foremost oxen.
Derivatives
foreˈloop v. (intransitive) to do the work of a forelooper.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (of person) [verb (intransitive)] > be controller of animals
foreloop1889
1889 Catholic Household 30 Nov. 7 Fr. Le Bihan in like manner ‘fore-louping’ because one of their boys had cut his foot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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