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Definition of Outrider
1. Noun. An escort who rides ahead (as a member of the vanguard).
Definition of Outrider
1. n. A summoner whose office is to cite men before the sheriff.
Definition of Outrider
1. Noun. A guide or escort, especially one who rides in advance ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outrider
1. a mounted attendant who rides before or beside a carriage [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outrider
Literary usage of Outrider
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (1895)
"... LI WITH HER outrider iHE arrangement for getting back again to Weather- bury
had been that Oak should take the place of Poor- grass in Bathsheba's ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1897)
"There is a fine open-air flavour about this term outrider. ... There was a certain
Mr. outrider Squibb, who went Progress in 1677, who would have required a ..."
3. Children's Classics in Dramatic Form by Augusta Stevenson (1910)
"SCENE III TIME : three days later. PLACE : the high road. DON QUIXOTE. FIRST outrider.
SANCHO PANZA. SECOND outrider. FARMER. THIRD outrider. BOY. ..."
4. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1875)
"The second valet stood talking with the outrider, who had alighted from his courser,
... Then the outrider, looking toward us, put his finger on his mouth, ..."
5. The Observatory by Royal Astronomical Society (Gran Bretaña), Royal Greenwich Observatory, NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, Royal astronomical society GB (1899)
"The present Warden, for instance, can remember finding himself (though before he
was Warden, and when filling the office of outrider) with more than ..."
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