单词 | outrunner |
释义 | outrunnern.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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.11598n.21853 |
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