outrunner

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An offshoot; a branch.
    — some out-runner of the river, where the streams run not strongly
  2. A person or animal who accompanies a vehicle or procession but who is not seated in the vehicle or part of the procession.
    — Mail, guns and luggage aboard, and ourselves perched in the only seat of honor and comfort, that with the driver, we tore away through a long avenue lined with native shops, an outrunner hanging on for dear life to the more obstrepersous horse for the first quarter of a mile.
  3. An electric motor having the rotor outside the stator.
  4. One who outruns.
    — Such as in a game of backgammon one can be outrun, and other times one can be the outrunner, so are the brave-hearted riders, who roam the hunting ground sometimes apprehended, and other times become apprehenders themselves.

词形变化

outrunners plural
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