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Forerunner

n.
  1. A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever.
  2. A predecessor; an ancestor.
  3. (Naut.) A piece of rag terminating the log line.