outgallop

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outgallop (third-person singular simple present outgallops, present participle outgalloping, simple past and past participle outgalloped)

(transitive, especially of horses or riders) To run faster than; to outdistance.
- 1869, Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude, ch. 14,
  He had lately procured himself a large, fine, mettlesome, Donets horse, dun-colored, with light mane and tail, and when he rode it no one could outgallop him.

References edit

Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.