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Outrider   Listen
noun
Outrider  n.  
1.
A summoner whose office is to cite men before the sheriff. (Obs.)
2.
One who rides out on horseback, beyond the main group, e. g., as a scout.
3.
A servant on horseback attending a carriage.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Outrider" Quotes from Famous Books



... and, mingled with the modern turnouts of the home party and the neighboring Americans, were a few of the cumbrous vehicles and chariots of fifty years ago, drawn by gayly trapped mules with bizarre postilions, and occasionally an outrider. Dark faces looked from the balcony of the patio, a light cloud of cigarette-smoke made the dark corridors the more obscure, and mingled with the forgotten incense. Bare-headed pretty women, with roses starring their ...
— Maruja • Bret Harte

... twenty-four hours more we made Fort Dodge, and on the 6th of March arrived at Fort Hays. Just south of the Smoky Hill River, a little before we got to the post, a courier heading for Fort Dodge passed us at a rapid gait. Suspecting that he had despatches for me, I directed my outrider to overtake him and find out. The courier soon turned back, and riding up to my ambulance handed me a telegram notifying me that General Grant, on the day of his inauguration, March 4, 1869, had appointed me Lieutenant-General of the Army. When I reported in ...
— The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete • General Philip Henry Sheridan



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