pioner

English

Noun

pioner (plural pioners)

1. Obsolete form of pioneer (military sapper or digger)
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

     I had been happy, if the general camp,
     Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body,
     So I had nothing known.

Anagrams

• Perino, Pinero, norepi, opiner, orpine, pernio, porine, pornie, rip one, rope in