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Definition of Outgallop
1. Verb. (transitive especially of horses or riders) To run faster than; to outdistance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outgallop
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outgallop
Literary usage of Outgallop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman, Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas Biggs Harned, Horace Traubel, Oscar Lovell Triggs (1902)
"Lines 24-26, 1855: read "I but use you a moment and then I resign you stallion —
and do not need your paces, and outgallop them, And myself as I stand or ..."
2. The Works of Laurence Sterne: In One Volume, with a Life of the Author by Laurence Sterne (1831)
"... to partake of the sport, taking care only not to outgallop the King— Though
there are two reasons why you need not talk loud of this to every one. ..."
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