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ˈoutˌrunner2
[out- 8.]
1. One who or that which runs out; spec. an attendant who runs in advance of or beside a carriage; a horse which runs in traces outside the shafts; the dog which acts as leader of a team of sledge dogs; fig. a forerunner, an avant-courier.
1598Florio, Scorritore, an outrunner, a gadder to and fro. 1891Eliz. Bisland Flying Trip iii. 76 These outrunners accompany all folk of importance in Japan. 1891Pall Mall G. 19 Mar. 3/1 Further on you hail with an increasing sense of pleasure the outrunners of a forest. 1893Voice (N.Y.) 16 Nov., The outrunners for the Whig organization worked the temperance question for all it would bring them. 1894Daily News 12 Oct. 7/6 They are harnessed in numbers from 3 to 11..with one dog as an outrunner to shew the way. 1897J. Y. Simpson in Blackw. Mag. Jan. 12 Supported by an outrunner trotting abreast.
†2. An outrunning branch or creek. Obs.
1653W. Lauson in J. D[ennys] Secr. Angling in Arb. Garner I. 194 In a shallow river, or in some out-runner of the river.
So ˈoutˌrunning vbl. n. [out- 9], the running out, † expiry, termination (obs.); ppl. a. [out- 10], that runs out.
1546Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 39 Twa dayis befor the outrynning of the said xxty dayis. 1597Skene De Verb. Sign. s.v. None-enters, After the ischue and out-running of the saidis three tearmes. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right (1899) 109/2 The wooden wedge, which..arrests and acts as a brake to the outrunning rope. 1894Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 58/2, I found the out-running water perfectly clear. |