Outrunner

noun

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Definitions

Noun

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."

"some out-runner of the river, where the streams run not strongly"