second-class scout

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second-class scout - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Boy scout \Boy scout\
     Orig., a member of the "Boy Scouts," an organization of boys
     founded in 1908, by Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, to promote
     good citizenship by creating in them a spirit of civic duty
     and of usefulness to others, by stimulating their interest in
     wholesome mental, moral, industrial, and physical activities,
     etc. Hence, a member of any of the other similar
     organizations, which are now worldwide. In "The Boy Scouts of
     America" the local councils are generally under a scout
     commissioner, under whose supervision are scout masters, each
     in charge of a troop of two or more patrols of eight scouts
     each, who are of three classes, tenderfoot, second-class scout
     , and first-class scout.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]