Obs. Also 4, 6 for-. [f. FORE- pref. + LEADER.] One who leads the advance; a chief or principal leader.
c. 1300. Cursor M., 14410 (Cott.). Þis moyses was þair for-leder.
1535. Joye, Apol. Tindale, 18. Christe is the first frutis and fore leader of them that sleap.
1576. Gascoigne, Diet for Drunkards (1789), 17. Would God that we learned not, by the foreleaders before named, to charge and coniure each other vnto the pledge.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., VII. v. § 1. Hengist for valour, policie, and strength, was the fore-leader.
1648. Herrick, Hesper. (1859), 326.
Howeer it fortuned, know for truth I meant | |
You a foreleader in this testament. |
1876. Whitby Gloss., Fooreleader, chief captain.