▪ I. outshoot, n.
(ˈaʊt-ʃuːt)
[out- 7.]
1. The act or fact of shooting or thrusting out.
| 1897 Outing (U.S.) XXX. 237/1 A smart out-shoot of the hands before commencing the swing forward [in rowing]. |
2. Something that shoots out or projects; a projection or extension. Also fig.
| 1613 Markham Eng. Husbandman i. ii. i. (1635) 121 That wall would have upon the inside..Iames or outshoots of stone or brick. 1650 Bulwer Anthropomet. 11 When the hinder eminence or out-shoote is wanting. 1887 Amer. Missionary (N.Y.) May 129 Churches and schools, with all their multitudinous outshoots of work. |
3. = outflow.
| 1622 Sir R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 107 It hath great rivers of fresh waters, for the out-shoot of them colours the sea in many places. |
4. Baseball. = outcurve 1.
| 1887 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 5 May 6/3 He has a queer drop and out-shoot on which McQuaid failed to give him strikes. 1903 R. H. Barbour Weatherby's Inning 230 Then followed an out-shoot and a drop, neither of which did Joe take to. 1911 W. Patten Bk. Baseball 63/1 The plain horizontal outshoot, by the way, is no more in fashion. 1972 B. Shaw Pitching v. 86 Years ago, terms like ‘drops’, ‘downer’, ‘out-shoot’ were used to describe the curve ball. |
▪ II. outshoot, v.
(aʊt-ˈʃuːt)
[out- 18, 17, 15.]
1. trans. To surpass in shooting; to shoot farther or better than.
| 1530 Palsgr. 650/1, I outshote, je oultretyre. 1581 Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 51 As if they out shot Robin Hood. 1605 Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xxiii. 88 b, I doubt not but learned men with meane experience, woulde..outshoote them in their owne bowe. 1730 T. Boston Mem. xii. 404 Satan was outshot in his own bow and plied another engine. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 13 July 6/3 Again we hear of our guns being outranged and outshot. |
b. To shoot beyond as a young branch; also fig.
| 1772 Holwel in Phil. Trans. LXII. 129 The first he grafted is six years old, and has out-shot his parent 2 feet in heighth. 1857 W. Smith Thorndale 424 The individual mind is progressive, and here and there one outshoots the others. |
2. To shoot beyond (a mark or limit).
| 1545 R. Ascham Toxoph. i. (Arb.) 19 This thyng maketh them summtyme to outshoote the marke. a 1711 Norris (J.), Men are resolved never to outshoot their forefathers' mark. |
3. To shoot out or forth; to project.
| 1658 W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. verse 14. ii. iv. (1669) 19/1 They..that are so farr outshot from Natures weak Bow. a 1851 Moir Evening Tranquillity ii, The woods outshoot their shadows dim. |