ˈoutˌrunner2
[out- 8.]
1. One who or that which runs out; spec. an attendant who runs in advance of or beside a carriage; a horse which runs in traces outside the shafts; the dog which acts as leader of a team of sledge dogs; fig. a forerunner, an avant-courier.
| 1598 Florio, Scorritore, an outrunner, a gadder to and fro. 1891 Eliz. Bisland Flying Trip iii. 76 These outrunners accompany all folk of importance in Japan. 1891 Pall Mall G. 19 Mar. 3/1 Further on you hail with an increasing sense of pleasure the outrunners of a forest. 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 Blackw. Mag. Jan. 12 Supported by an outrunner trotting abreast. |
† 2. An outrunning branch or creek. Obs.
| 1653 W. Lauson in J. D[ennys] Secr. Angling in Arb. Garner I. 194 In a shallow river, or in some out-runner of the river. |
So ˈoutˌrunning vbl. n. [out- 9], the running out, † expiry, termination (obs.); ppl. a. [out- 10], that runs out.
| 1546 Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 39 Twa dayis befor the outrynning of the said xx{supt}{supy} dayis. 1597 Skene De Verb. Sign. s.v. None-enters, After the ischue and out-running of the saidis three tearmes. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right (1899) 109/2 The wooden wedge, which..arrests and acts as a brake to the outrunning rope. 1894 Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 58/2, I found the out-running water perfectly clear. |