outriden.
/ˈaʊtrʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈaʊtˌraɪd/ 1. The action or an act of riding out; an excursion. Formerly also: a place for riding. Now chiefly South African.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > a ride or spell of riding or excursion
roadeOE
ridinga1325
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trotc1650
ride1708
equitation1728
outride1740
horse-ride1903
1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol Ded. Your province is the town; leave me a small outride in the country.
1765 Percy Reliques Gloss. Outrake, an out-ride; or expedition.
1776 A. Mackrabie Jrnl. 5 Feb. in Francis Lett. (1901) I. 259 Such of us who were not too fatigued..rode..to an Octagon Summer House... I was not without apprehension, during this outride, of coming to an untimely end.
1995 Re: Teaching Child to Ride in rec.equestrian (Usenet newsgroup) 13 Mar. He soon started going on outrides (what the Americans call trail riding) with her by the time he was three.
1998 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) (Electronic ed.) 29 Nov. Learn to ride or improve your technique at one of three week-long camps... Outrides also available for over-fives at R30/hour.
2002 Africa News (Nexis) 27 Mar. A three-day horse trail is also available. Scenic outrides cost R70 an hour.
2. English regional. A commercial traveller. Also: the territory or range of a commercial traveller. Now rare.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > area covered by salesman or firm
outride1879
territory1898
test-market1958
geography1983
society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > commercial traveller
rideout1752
rider1752
outrider1762
traveller1790
commercial traveller1807
bagman1808
town traveller1808
commis voyageur1825
roundman1827
drummer1828
travelling salesman1833
bag woman1845
commercial1861
fieldman1875
outride1879
roundsman1884
knight of the road1889
representative1918
sales representative1949
sales rep1959
rep1973
1879 Notes & Queries 29 Mar. 245/1 Out-ride, a traveller for orders for a firm is so called in Somerset.
1884 R. Lawson in E. M. Lawson Nation in Parish App. p. xxiv Outride, the district of a commercial traveller.
1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. 165 Outride, the district of a commercial traveller—himself called an ‘outride’ or ‘outrider’ in olden times. The terms are almost forgotten.
3. Prosody. An additional unstressed syllable in a metrical foot that is not counted in the nominal scanning.Chiefly used with reference to the writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89), who first used the word in this sense.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > foot > hypermetric syllable(s)
outride1880
1880 G. M. Hopkins Let. 22 Dec. (1935) 41 By means of the ‘outrides’ or looped half-feet..I secure a strong effect of double rhythm, of a second movement in the verse besides the primary and essential one.
a1889 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1918) Pref. 5 Two licences are natural to Sprung Rhythm. The one is rests, as in music... The other is hangers or outrides, that is one, two, or three slack syllables added to a foot and not counting in the nominal scanning.
1934 C. Day Lewis Hope for Poetry ii. 10 What Hopkins called ‘outrides’, unstressed syllables occasionally placed before the stressed ones at the beginning of the foot.
1973 Stud. Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 24 In certain of the poems written in sprung rhythm..‘outrides’ appear to be extensively used, and these Hopkins has taken great pains to indicate.
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outridev.
/aʊtˈrʌɪd/, U.S. /ˌaʊtˈraɪd/ a. intransitive. To ride out. Obsolete (poetic in later use).
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > out
outrideOE
OE Laws of Edgar (Nero E.i) iv. viii. 210 Gif he þonne unmyndlunge ceap aredige ut on hwylcere fare, buton he hit ær cydde, þa he utrad, cyðe hit þonne he ham cume.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 9738 Octa him ut ræd [c1300 Othov.r. vt rod], & muche folc him after glæd.
c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) 850 (MED) Riȝt at prime tide Hi gunnen vt ride [a1350 Harl. out to ryde; c1300 Laud hem out ryde].
c1390 G. Chaucer Sir Thopas 1940 And so bifel vp on a day..Sire Thopas wolde out ryde.
a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) v. 604 He to the yates wente Ther as Criseyde out rood [v.rr. out rod, oute rode] a ful good paas.
1815 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 629 The bravest that ever in battle outrade.
b. transitive. to outride one's course: (in jousting) to complete one's course or pass. Obsolete.
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c1330 Sir Degare (Auch.) 537 in W. H. French & C. B. Hale Middle Eng. Metrical Romances (1930) 304 But as God Almiȝti wold, Þe schaft brak and miȝt nowt hold, And Degarre his cours out ritte, And was agramed out of his witte.
c1450 (a1400) Libeaus Desconus (Calig. A.ii) (1969) 952 Gyffroun hys hors [read cours] out-ryt And was wode out of wyt.
2.
a. transitive. To outdo in riding a horse; to ride better, faster, or further than; to leave behind by riding.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > out
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > ride better or faster than
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 650/2 Take as swyfte a geldynge as thou canste fynde and I holde the twenty nobles I outryde the.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. i. 36 Sir Iohn Vmfreuile turnd me backe..and being better horst, Out rode me.
1685 Dangerfield's Mem. 21 We..by much out-rode all the Pursuers for the space of an hour Whip and Spur.
1705 D. Defoe Writings II. 129 Conquest out-rid his Troops, and Fear Gave Victory without a War.
1780 C. Reeve Old Eng. Baron (ed. 2) 156 He had out-rode his servants, and was alone.
1793 J. Byng Diary 29 July in C. B. Andrews Torrington Diaries (1936) III. 257 I was..hurried in by the mail girl, who outrode me.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 243 He tried ineffectually to outride..the furious animal.
1907 J. W. Schultz My Life as Indian vi. 69 Take my horse; go quick; you can outride them.
1955 C. A. Johnson Frontier Camp Meeting viii. 155 The saddlebag preacher often outworked the farmer, outrode the hunter, and outdistanced the fur trader.
1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) i. 58 You think he can outride him? I know for a fact he can.
b. transitive. figurative and in extended use.
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1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. ii. i. 13 Like a Tempest that out rides the wind.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite iii, in Fables 63 For this Advantage Age from Youth has won, As not to be outridden, though outrun.
1791 T. Paine Rights of Man i. 109 Their anxiety now was to outride the news lest they should be stopt.
1864 R. S. Hawker Quest Sangraal 23 A White and glowing Horse outrode the Dawn!
1923 C. Morley Parsons' Pleasure 62 Here was a Voice That had a meaning, and outrode the years.
a1963 L. MacNeice Coll. Poems (1979) XIII. 485 Boorish kings who, mad to find Loot to outride each other's ambition, would stop At nothing.
1972 H. R. Isaacs Scratches on our Minds (1980) p. xxiv The young politicians who rode this wave in the past but outrode its reach had become free..to ignore it.
c. transitive. To ride out of or beyond (a place). rare.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > ride out of or away from
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1903 J. L. Weston tr. Sir Gawain at Grail Castle i. 15 In that one night had he outridden Britain and all that country.
3. transitive. Of a ship: to survive or ride out the violence of (a storm). Frequently figurative and in extended use.
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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (transitive)] > sustain a storm
to ride out1603
outride1647
weather1673
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 17 Who by patience out rode the stormes of forraine force.
1680 M. Livingstone Albion's Elegie vi. 14 The Ship, wherein, Great Sir, secure You may all Storms out-ride, and cast Safe Anchor on our Breasts.
1749 C. Wesley Hymns & Poems II. ii. 313 Who in Jesus confide, We are bold to out-ride The Storms of Affliction beneath.
1798 Hull Advertiser 3 Nov. 3/2 She out-rode the whole gale with her stern to the wind.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. v. 265 Those perils appear less to us, who know how the vessel out-rode them.
a1857 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. vi. vi. 202 By what divine art was it that his ark was so skilfully framed as to out-ride those deluges of trouble?
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) vi. 104 One little bird..cunningly taking to its wings and lifting itself a few feet through the air over the foaming crest of each breaker, but sometimes outriding safely a considerable billow..when its instinct told it that it would not break.
1923 R. U. Johnson Remembered Yesterdays viii. 285 Who..can forget his descriptions of the windstorm in the Yuba, which he outrode in a waving treetop.
1941 M. Mitchell Let. 23 June in Gone with the Wind Lett. (1986) 337 I..have been trying to outride the deluge which has descended on me.
1998 Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) (Nexis) 12 Nov. 1 a I find their explanation very poor for why they..allowed those guys to go and outride the storm.
4. † b. transitive. U.S. To ride along the boundaries of (a tract of land) to check for straying cattle, assess the condition of land, etc. Cf. outrider n. 4b. Obsolete.
a. intransitive. North American. To ride ahead of or beside a vehicle (originally a carriage or coach), wagon train, etc., as an outrider. Also transitive with the vehicle, etc., as object.In later use frequently spec. with reference to chuck-wagon racing (see outrider n. 4d).
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1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. vi. 304 Old Nick himself in a coach and two;..the Archbishop of Canterbury on the box; St. Peter and Whitfield outriding.
1890 Cent. Dict. Outride,..to ride before or beside a carriage as attendant.
a1916 J. London Jacket (1969) xii. 110 The faces of the men and youths who outrode the train were grim.
1964 Albertan (Calgary) July 15/6 He's driving two chuckwaggon outfits [and] will probably outride for a couple more.
2001 Edmonton Sun (Nexis) 12 July (Sports section) 9 Irvine also outrides for four wagons every night.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > outride
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outride1874
1874 J. G. McCoy Hist. Sketches Cattle Trade 375 He does not herd his cattle but designates certain bounds within which the employees permit the stock to range at will. This manner of holding stock is termed ‘out riding’ the country.
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