outring

English

Etymology

out- +‎ ring

Verb

outring (third-person singular simple present outrings, present participle outringing, simple past outrang, past participle outrung)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in volume of ringing sound; to ring louder than.
    • b. 1955, traditional (lyrics and music), “Swannanoa Town”, in North Carolina Ballads, performed by Artus Moser:
      Ain't no hammer in these mountains outrings mine, baby, outrings mine.
  2. (intransitive) To ring out; to clamour.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “outring”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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