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单词 outrunner
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outrunnern.1

Brit. /ˈaʊtˌrʌnə/, U.S. /ˈaʊtˌrənər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: out- prefix, runner n.1
Etymology: < out- prefix + runner n.1
1. A person who or animal which runs along the outside or outer side of something, as an attendant who runs ahead of or beside a carriage, a dog leading a team of sledge dogs, etc. Also figurative: one who goes about gathering or spreading intelligence; a forerunner, an advance party (now chiefly historical).
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > footman
footmanc1405
foot knavea1425
lackey1512
lacket1523
staffier1532
outrunner1598
fore-footman1610
skip-kennel1668
fart-catcher1785
carriage man1857
the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > going first or in front > [noun] > one who goes first > as a harbinger or messenger
messengerc1230
foregoer1393
fourrier1481
fore-rider1513
fore-currour1548
usher1548
harbingera1550
vaunt-courier1561
van-courier1581
herald1597
usherer1598
outrunner1891
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > that pulls sled
sled-dog1692
husky1871
outrunner1894
wheel-dog1922
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > draught-horse > team of > horse outside shafts or in traces
tracer1839
outrigger1844
trace-horse1844
chain horse1876
outrunner1897
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Scorritore, an outrunner, a gadder to and fro.
1762 D. Garrick Let. Aug. (1963) I. 363 He need not Employ his out runners & Spies to discover what Zoffani is doing at my house.
1843 C. Mathews Var. Writings 365 Seaboard and landward swarms with agents and outrunners.
1891 E. Bisland Flying Trip iii. 76 These outrunners accompany all folk of importance in Japan.
1893 Voice (N.Y.) 16 Nov. The outrunners for the Whig organization worked the temperance question for all it would bring them.
1894 Daily News 12 Oct. 7/6 They are harnessed in numbers from 3 to 11..with one dog as an outrunner to shew the way.
1897 J. Y. Simpson in Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 12 Supported by an outrunner trotting abreast.
1902 W. C. Smith Poet. Wks. 595 Hear you his Lordship's six-horsed coach Bearing him on to his well-earned billet, With an out-runner heralding his approach.
1924 L. Eckenstein Tutankh-aten ii. 24 The saïses running on either side of the chariots as only outrunners in Egypt can run.
1995 Monthly Rev. (Nexis) Dec. 20 People like Christopher Columbus were the outrunners for merchant capitalists, who funded voyages in pursuit of new wealth.
2. A projection or outshoot of a forest, mountain range, or some other physical feature.In quot. 1620: an outflowing or divergent branch of a river.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > tributary > [noun] > branch
arma1398
armleta1552
outrunner1620
sprout1676
horn1697
anabranch1834
distributary1863
1620 W. Lawson in J. Dennys Secrets of Angling (new ed.) sig. C5v In a shallow Riuer, or in some out-runner of the Riuer.
1849 J. G. Bruff Jrnl. 9 July in Gold Rush (1944) I. i. 119 Road over high sandy arid plains—very level & dusty. Outrunners of the Rocky Mountains ahead.
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Mar. 3/1 Further on you hail with an increasing sense of pleasure the outrunners of a forest.
1958 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 241 208 A retreat of the ancestral habitat..would leave outrunners of gallery forest along the major drainage lines.
1991 Times (Nexis) 7 Dec. Fingers of dunes crept across the plateau... They were outrunners of the Grand Erg Occidental, the Great Western Sand Sea.
1997 Hesperia 66 200 It stays west of the saddle separating Parori from Mount Parnassos and passes between an outrunner to the east called Makryrachi and the steep side of the mountain proper.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

outrunnern.2

Brit. /ˌaʊtˈrʌnə/, /ˈaʊtˌrʌnə/, U.S. /ˈˌaʊtˈˌrənər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: outrun v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < outrun v. + -er suffix1. Compare earlier outrunner n.1
rare.
A person who or thing which outruns something. outrunner of the constable: one who exceeds all sensible limits in behaviour, expenditure, etc. Cf. constable n. 6.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker > one running away from law
bolter1699
outrunner of the constable1853
1853 D. F. MacCarthy Love after Death ii. iv. 82 A steed is waiting—Swift outrunner of the wind.
1885 J. C. Jeaffreson Real Shelley II. 257 The young man..like most other outrunners of the constable, was often without money.
1989 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 17 Sept. ii. 33 A camcorder aimed at the outrunners of the storm.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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