[f. SPOOR v.] One who follows an animal, etc., by the trace or trail; a tracker.

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1850.  R. G. Cumming, Hunter’s Life S. Afr., xv. Several of the spoorers affirmed that they had heard the elephants break a tree in advance.

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1863.  W. C. Baldwin, Afr. Hunting, 259. I followed silently in the rear of the spoorers.

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1899.  F. V. Kirby, Sport E. C. Africa, x. 112. As a spoorer I have never known a better.

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