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▪ I. ˈoutstep, n.
[out- 7.]
1. The act of stepping out; the ‘step’ in a march. rare.
1869Browning Ring & Bk. x. 426 Careful lest the common ear Break measure, miss the outstep of life's march.
2. In full outstep well. An oil well drilled beyond an area already drilled in order to extend the productive area or ascertain its limits.
1947Economist 5 July 40/1 Some of these wells were considerable outsteps to test the possibilities of outlying areas, thereby extending the limits of the proven producing area to the west and north. 1955Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists XXXIX. 1353 In the latter part of the year a contract National 80 B rig began drilling a program of outsteps to evaluate the oil find at Alcata-I. 1973R. E. Chapman Petroleum Geol. xii. 256 More problems arise when planning an ‘out-step’ well, to prove an extension to the accumulation, or to define its limits.
▪ II. outˈstep, v.
[out- 17.]
trans. To step outside of or beyond; to overstep.
1759Goldsm. Polite Learn. x. Misc. Wks. (Globe) 441/2 The actor..who by outstepping nature, chooses to exhibit the ridiculous outré of a harlequin under the sanction of that venerable name [Shakspere]. 1819Metropolis III. 12 He outstepped the bounds of moderation. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 119 Here..Socrates and Plato outstep the truth.
So ˈoutˌstepping vbl. n. [out- 9], a stepping out of one's course.
1632Sanderson Serm. (1681) II. 18 When a man, thus walking with God in the main, hath yet these outsteppings and deviations upon the by. |