outrunner
English
Noun
outrunner (plural outrunners)
- An offshoot; a branch.
- 1620, William Lauson, "Comments on The Secrets of Angling", 2nd edition, in Edward Arber (editor), An English Garner, 1877
- some out-runner of the river, where the streams run not strongly
- 1620, William Lauson, "Comments on The Secrets of Angling", 2nd edition, in Edward Arber (editor), An English Garner, 1877
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for outrunner in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)