DCHP-2
trailblazer † DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1 n.
a man knowledgeable about life on the trail in wild country.
See also: trailman
- 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."
2 n.
a person who cuts or breaks a trail through the bush.
See also: trail-cutter
- 1958 Let us join the trail blazers as they marked out a route.
- 1965 . . . Mac Kirk [was] one of the Owen Sound trailblazers. . . .
3 n.
one who leads the way into new fields; pathfinder.
See also: trail-breaker (def. 3) trail-maker (def. 1)
- 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.
- 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?"