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forerider
n. Someone who rides at the front; a scout, or someone in the vanguard.
Usage examples of "forerider".
All her mind was fixed on the forerider where he crouched and drew on the floorboards with a burnt stick.
Riding stallions as thick necked and muscular as wolves, the foreriders held spears of black steel couched in horn casings that hung from the saddles along with their stirrups.
The quad of heavily armed hammermen, the foreriders with their case-hardened spears, and the swordsmen with their blades of blue steel were here t solely to guard the wagon.