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Definition of Putout
1. Noun. An out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout). "The first baseman made 15 putouts"
Specialized synonyms: Force, Force Out, Force Play, Force-out, Fielder's Choice, Sacrifice
Category relationships: Baseball, Baseball Game
Derivative terms: Put Out, Put Out
Definition of Putout
1. Noun. (baseball) A play in which a batter is retired ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Putout
1. an act of causing an out in baseball [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Putout
Literary usage of Putout
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of American and English Law: With Definitions of the Technical by Stewart Rapalje, Robert Linn Lawrence (1888)
"... knocked about by cither persons in self-defense, ultimately hit and putout
the plaintiff's eye. ..."
2. The New Italian, English, and French Pocket Dictionary: Carefully Comp. from by Ferdinando Bottarelli, Gaetano Polidori (1820)
"... far passare una moneta Put out, démettre, déposer, scavalcare, scacciare Put
out, éteindre, estinguere putout to sea, démarrer, ..."
3. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"A ball striking a player on its way from the board counts against the side struck
and scores a point or a putout for the opposition. ..."
4. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1884)
"After a while, weary of waiting for me to stop and talk with him, Master Richard
would putout his paw and strike the pen ; and, if that did not bring on a ..."
5. The Historic Note-book: With an Appendix of Battles by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1891)
"May they be accursed In the life which now IN : and may their hope of salvation,
like the light of these candles, be putout. ..."
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