What does estampede mean?

estampede

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Obsolete

"Fortunately it did not produce an estampede, which I had known to have been caused on another occasion by a similar occurrence."
"Oxen will run farther than horses, and some of them have been known, when under the influence of the estampede, or sudden fright, to run forty miles without ever stopping, and when at last they halted, it was merely because exhausted nature would not allow them to go further."

estampedes (plural)

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