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c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 166 A monk ther was, a fair for the maistrye, An outridere [v.r. owte-rider] that louede venerye.

c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. v. 116 Red me nat, quaþ reson, no reuthe to haue Til..religious out-ryders [c1400 B text romares] reclused in here cloistres..be as benit hem bad, domenick and fraunceis.

c1480 (a1400) St. Theodora 424 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 111 Þai ordenyt hyr þare out-rydere, þar witale to þe house to by.

1526 Visitation Bp. Nicke in A. Jessopp Visitations Diocese of Norwich (1888) 214 Dompnus Willelmus Hornyng, oute-rider.

1939 Mod. Lang. Notes 54 482 In the Shipman's Tale, Daun John, the outrider, travels with his abbot after the Augustinian custom.

1664 M. Woodward Jrnl. 23 Apr. in Norfolk Rec. Soc. (1951) XXII. 91 Talking about this with Mr. Outrider (Oldys) hee thought that as for Rents, it was not in our power to abate them.

1901 H. Rashdall & R. S. Rait New College, Oxf. 251 The Warden (or Sub-warden) accompanied by a Fellow known as ‘Out-rider’..and the Steward, visit the farms on some part of the College estates.

1952 A. H. Smith New College, Oxf. iii. 47 An out-rider is still appointed each year to go with the warden on his summer progress around the estates.

1528 R. Copland tr. Secrete of Secretes of Arystotle sig. Hiii Euer haue good outryders and watches about thyn hoost.

1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. iv. 207 The cohorts..recouered all the spoile, saue onely that which certaine out~riders had caryed further into the cuntrey.

1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales iv. vi. 97 The out-riders and forragers were conducted by certaine chosen Moores.

1599 T. Heywood 1st Pt. King Edward IV sig. E4^v I feare thou art some out-rider, that liues by taking of purses here on Bassets heath.

1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis i. i. 4 Some out-riders of Lycogenes his Campe; which..lay in wait for any passengers.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 250/2 Outryder, auant courreur.

1780 J. Woodforde Diary 19 Sept. (1924) I. 291 To the Coachman and Postilion and an Outrider—gave 0. 3. 0.

1791 F. Burney Let. 2 Aug. in Jrnls. & Lett. (1972) I. 13 We saw a very handsome Coach & 4 horses followed by..out-riders, stop at the Gate.

1802 Ann. Reg. 1801 (Otridge ed.) Chron. 13/1 She set off for Brighton with four horses and out-riders.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxiv. 327 Sharks also are the invariable outriders of all slave ships crossing the Atlantic.

1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. vii. 79 There were..light outriders of pithy weed.

1870 Temple Bar 29 193 Their heroes go to the drive in a tandem with outriders; but, notwithstanding this strange confusion of curricular arrangements [etc.].

1939 Sun (Baltimore) 25 Aug. 6/4 A motor~cycle out rider was killed in Vermont while escorting a troop train.

1974 Econ. Hist. Rev. 27 534 These villages—on firm ground amid the Glastonbury marshes or in a line on the Wiltshire Downs just east of Selwood, with Wantage as an outrider to the north-east in Berkshire.

1991 T. Pakenham Scramble for Afr. xiii. 235 The square moved slowly forward, with ammunition camels in the centre, while skirmishers and outriders (hussars and mounted infantry) protected the flanks.

1872 Kansas Mag. 1 319/2 Where the grower does not drive his own stock to market, the buying and driving is done by a class of speculators known in Texas as ‘outriders’.

1874 J. G. McCoy Hist. Sketches Cattle Trade 348 [The] trail escapes the vigilant eye and Indian cunning and proficiency of the herdsman or outrider.

1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) i. vi. 117 We saw..the whole herd and the outriders and the mesas far away.

1939 P. A. Rollins Gone Haywire 230 Cowboys, patrolling as ‘out~riders’ and ‘line riders’, had always to keep an eye on them.

1968 R. F. Adams Western Words (rev. ed.) 214/2 Outrider, a cowboy who rides about the range to keep a sharp lookout for anything that might happen to the detriment of his employer; also called range rider.

1947 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Nov. 11/4 Them outriders ought to get extra pay for steeplechases.

1968 M. T. Malloy Racing Today 42/1 A couple of other horses meanwhile may be running away with their jockeys hanging on for dear life, and with the track's red-coated outriders in hot pursuit.

1993 Equus July 44/2 She careened around the racetrack, nearly bumping against the outside rail, and had to be pulled to a stop by an outrider.

1955 W. G. Hardy Alberta Golden Jubilee Anthol. 169 There are four outriders to each of the four outfits in every heat. When the starting-horn blows, one outrider holds back the team of horses fighting to be on its way. Another throws the stove in the rear of the chuckwagon. The remaining two pitch the flies and poles into the covered wagon.

1964 Albertan (Calgary) 7 July 1/2 Three crack-ups..saw all drivers, outriders and horses come out unscathed.

1989 Gazette (Montreal) 27 May i3/2 A chuckwagon ‘outfit’ is made up of a stripped-down wagon, driver, a team of thoroughbreds and four outriders.