| 释义 |
† ˈoutroad Obs.
[out- 7.]
A riding out, an excursion; esp. a warlike excursion or raid; a sally. Also fig.
1560Bible (Genev.) 1 Macc. xv. 41 He set horsemen and garisons, that they might make outrodes by the waies of Iudea. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xviii. ii. 107 All those captives, whome in many out-rodes they had taken and carried away. a1656Hales Gold. Rem. i. (1673) 82 He stood the shock of fifty set Battels, beseide all Seiges and Out-rodes. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xix. i. (1872) VIII. 102 Still another assault, or invasive outroad, northward against the Russian Magazines. |