after-rider, noun

Origin:
Calque formed on South African Dutch achter-rijder.
historical
agterryer sense 1.
1824 [see agterryer sense 1].
1856 J. & M. Churchill Merchant Family in Natal (1979) 74I took horse in company with a young man and Kaffir ‘after-rider’ to ‘Pretoria’ a new Dorp lately begun about a hundred miles E.N.E. from Mooi River Dorp.
a1868 J. Montgomery Reminisc. (1981) 127Then I told my after-rider, Plaatje Rooibaadje, to lead some of our horses down the hill, while we continued steadily to retreat.
1875 J.J. Bisset Sport & War 47I could not afford an ‘after-rider’, but it so happened that my second horse required no one to lead him.
1898 G. Nicholson 50 Yrs 181I had a Hottentot ‘afterrider’ with me and was armed with a good double gun.
1907 W.C. Scully By Veldt & Kopje 27An alert-looking Hottentot was assigned to me as an after-rider and guide.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 21The English colonists have simply translated the term (sc. achterrijder) and speak of their ‘after-rider’.
1931 V. Sampson Kom Binne 146A Hottentot boy, known as an after-rider, followed the cart on horseback, for the purpose of opening gates on the road, and attending to the horses in the Dorp.
1944 J. Mockford Here Are S. Africans 72The guns were piled up in charge of the coloured after-riders at the two milk trees at the Boer encampment.
1953 K. Larson Talbots, Sweetnams & Wiggills. 31I left Plaat-Berg on horseback alone, although it is customary in the Cape to have a young boy to ride with a traveller. The Dutch call him an ‘after-rider’.
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