"land clearer" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1903, Farmers' Bulletin - Issues 126-150, page 7",
          "text": "Recently the Angela goat has attracted considerable attention as a land clearer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Olivier Frayssé, Lincoln, Land, and Labor, 1809-60, page 54",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Paul Yee, Saltwater City: Story of Vancouver's Chinese Community, page 37",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/\nYaki have just one natural predator, the reticulated python, but they have many enemies. Land clearers are pushing the monkeys around."
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Someone or something that clears land of vegetation, usually in preparation for development."
      ],
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          "land",
          "land"
        ],
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          "vegetation",
          "vegetation"
        ],
        [
          "development",
          "development"
        ]
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          "_dis1": "76 24",
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "someone who clears land of vegetation",
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            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "défricheur"
        }
      ]
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        {
          "ref": "2012 -, P. Dybjer, Sten Lindström, Erik Palmgren, Epistemology versus Ontology",
          "text": "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.",
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        "One who prepares the way for a project or type of endeavor by removing obstacles."
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          "prepare",
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          "project",
          "project"
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        [
          "endeavor",
          "endeavor"
        ],
        [
          "obstacle",
          "obstacle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) One who prepares the way for a project or type of endeavor by removing obstacles."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
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  "word": "land clearer"
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        {
          "ref": "1903, Farmers' Bulletin - Issues 126-150, page 7",
          "text": "Recently the Angela goat has attracted considerable attention as a land clearer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Olivier Frayssé, Lincoln, Land, and Labor, 1809-60, page 54",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Paul Yee, Saltwater City: Story of Vancouver's Chinese Community, page 37",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/\nYaki have just one natural predator, the reticulated python, but they have many enemies. Land clearers are pushing the monkeys around."
        }
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        "Someone or something that clears land of vegetation, usually in preparation for development."
      ],
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          "land",
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        ],
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          "vegetation",
          "vegetation"
        ],
        [
          "development",
          "development"
        ]
      ]
    },
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        }
      ],
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        "One who prepares the way for a project or type of endeavor by removing obstacles."
      ],
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        ],
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          "project",
          "project"
        ],
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          "endeavor",
          "endeavor"
        ],
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          "obstacle",
          "obstacle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) One who prepares the way for a project or type of endeavor by removing obstacles."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "someone who clears land of vegetation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "défricheur"
    }
  ],
  "word": "land clearer"
}