land clearer

English[edit]

land clearer (plural land clearers)

Someone or something that clears land of vegetation, usually in preparation for development.
- 1903, Farmers' Bulletin - Issues 126-150, page 7:
  Recently the Angela goat has attracted considerable attention as a land clearer.
- 1994, Olivier Frayssé, Lincoln, Land, and Labor, 1809-60, →ISBN, page 54:
  Symbolically, to his work as a pilot Lincoln added that of land clearer, chopping down the branches that impeded the progress of the steamer toward the confluence of the Sangamon and the Illinois.
- 2009, Paul Yee, Saltwater City: Story of Vancouver's Chinese Community, →ISBN, page 37:
  All a land clearer needs is a calloused skin and a dumb philosophy which refuses to recognize weariness and forgets man's right to pursue happiness.
- 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)[1]
  Yaki have just one natural predator, the reticulated python, but they have many enemies. Land clearers are pushing the monkeys around.
(by extension) One who prepares the way for a project or type of endeavor by removing obstacles.
- 2012 -, P. Dybjer, Sten Lindström, Erik Palmgren, Epistemology versus Ontology, →ISBN:
  It is as a pioneer and “land clearer” that we know Martin-Löf – one of the principal clarifiers of the syntax and semantics of constructive mathematics.

someone who clears land of vegetation