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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as stampede. A sudden stampedo or rush of horses.

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  • "He must ha 'broke loose and jined the stampedo," remarked Joe, coming out of the chief's tent at the moment; "but tie him up, Dick, and come in, for we want to settle about startin 'to-morrow or nixt day."

    The Dog Crusoe and his Master 1859

  • "A stampedo!" cried Joe, springing to the assistance of Pee-eye-em, whose favourite horses were picketted near the tent.

    The Dog Crusoe and his Master 1859

  • On they went with their heads lowered, and tails in the air, faster and faster, a regular stampedo.

    In the Wilds of Africa William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • "Can you count the flakes which fall in early winter? do you know the number of the stars in the blue canopy above our heads? can you reckon the buffaloes as they scamper across the plains in a stampedo?"

    Dick Onslow Among the Redskins William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • The animals kept well together in a dense mass -- a regular stampedo -- Terence and his nephew keeping the lead.

    The Three Lieutenants William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • We start for home — A stampedo — Loss of a hundred horses — Interview with a

    Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans 1846

  • By this accident I lost all the horses which ran off in the stampedo, and Checoba was materially injured for life.

    Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans 1846

  • We start for home — A stampedo — Loss of a hundred horses — Interview with a

    Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans 1846

  • In the course of the night, the wild colt whinnied repeatedly; and about two hours before day, there was a sudden stampedo, or rush of horses, along the purlieus of the camp, with a snorting and neighing, and clattering of hoofs, that startled most of the rangers from their sleep, who listened in silence, until the sound died away like the rushing of a blast.

    A Tour on the Prairies. 1835

  • No. They have no shame, in the third beat, the new layer will appear, and the new one, and the new one, Brian May wouldn't dare to do it, a new one, you start asking yourself how dare they and will they ever stop? but of course, you're enjoying it ... along with the drum stampedo - I mean stampedo of buffaloes compares to this like an ant circus.

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