outrunners

Noun

outrunner (plural outrunners)

1. An offshoot; a branch.
   • some out-runner of the river, where the streams run not strongly1620, William Lauson, "Comments on The Secrets of Angling", 2nd edition, in Edward Arber (editor), An English Garner, 1877
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.1889, James Ricalton, “Buffalo-Hunting in Ceylon”, in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, volume 28, page 712
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.2016, Tudor Salagean, Transylvania in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century: The Rise of the Congregational System, page 71