A person who or thing which finds something (in various senses of the verb). A person who comes upon or discovers something by chance or search…

A person who explores a country or place; a person who goes exploring, esp. as an occupation.

Used allusively for an explorer or discoverer.

A person who is amongst the first to explore or settle a new country, territory, or region; an early colonist or settler. Now chiefly historical.

A person who explores a place for the purpose of discovery; an explorer; spec. an archaeologist. Obsolete.

A person who finds or marks a path or way; an explorer.

= path-breaker n.

(a) = trail-blazer n. at compounds 1a above; (b) a small hound bred for the sport of hound trailing.