outleap
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]outleap (plural outleaps)
- A sally; flight; escape.
- A bursting forth; an ambush; a sudden quick effort.
- 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume II, Book II, Chapter XIV, page 173:
- The outleap of fury in the dagger-thrust had evidently exhausted him.
- (dated, obsolete, estate law) A fine which is paid by a person to their lord for deserting an estate without permission.
Verb
[edit]outleap (third-person singular simple present outleaps, present participle outleaping, simple past and past participle outleapt or outleaped)
- (transitive) To leap out, as if from an ambush.
- (transitive) To leap beyond or farther than.