pioneer, pioner (n.) Old form(s): Pyoner, Pyoners
sapper, labouring foot-soldier
Luc.1380[of a painting of Troy] There might you see the labouring pioneer / Begrimed with sweat
Oth III.iii.343[Othello to Iago, of Desdemona] I had been happy if the general camp, / Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body, / So I had nothing known
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