South Africa. [ad. Du. voorlooper, f, voor- FORE- + looper runner, f. loopen to run.]
A boy who walks with the foremost pair of a team of oxen, in order to guide them. Hence Foreloop v. intr., to do the work of a forelooper.
1863. W. C. Baldwin, African Hunting, iv. I managed to start on March 31, with only a driver and foreloper.
1881. Fenn, Off to Wilds, iii. 21. The black driver who was to manage the oxen busied himself along with the foreloper, whose duty it is to walk with the foremost oxen, in getting their great whips in trim, and in seeing the trek-tow and dissel-boom.
1889. Catholic Household, 30 Nov., 7. Fr. Le Bihan in like manner ‘fore-louping’ because one of their boys had cut his foot.
