Definition of "outgallop" in English

verb

1. (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.