DCHP-3

stampeding

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj.

rushing wildly in a headlong fashion.

Quotations

<i>c</i>1902
At fording-places on the Qu'Appelle and Saskatchewan . . . carcasses of buffalo have been found where the stampeding herd trampled the weak under foot, virtually building a bridge of the dead over which the vast host rushed.
1956
Hal rapped the gunwale with his paddle and heard what he did not want to hear--the rumbling sound that only a very large school of stampeding salmon make.