What is "stampeded"

Usage examples of "stampeded".

The old matriarch trumpeted again, joined now by a chorus of blaring screams as the shaggy, reddish-brown beasts, young and old, picked up speed and stampeded toward an unknown but far greater danger.

They had tried once to kill the man within, and when they stampeded the buffalo they were probably meaning to wipe out all trace of the telegrapher and perhaps of the station.

The horses had been stampeded and temporarily the renegades could not move.

He rushed into camp, and laboring under the impression that the cattle had stampeded, trampled over our beds, yelling at the top of his lungs.

A group of Indian women who had accompanied their men into battle, as they often did, had stampeded the animals.

One of the four Indians was detailed to hold the saddle ponies in a clump of scrub timber near the unsuspecting cattle while the other three, one with a lariat and the other two with hunting knives, silently crawled over the hill toward the sleeping herd and stalked them as they often had stalked the buffalo, knowing that if the cattle stampeded there would be no beef for the starving band that night.

He caught turtles and rattlesnakes, found the eggs of geese and ducks, stampeded a small buffalo herd to kill a calf, once shot a young forked horn who came to see what he was, and one day on a plain of short grass he chased a jackrabbit until it was so weak and confused that he could lean down from his galloping mare and grab its ear with his bare hand.

Their ammunition was gone, many of their horses had stampeded, and they were hemmed in by very superior numbers, so that no slightest slur can rest upon the survivors for their decision to surrender, though the movements which brought them to such a pass are more open to criticism.

A few stalwarts remained, however, and their numbers were increased by those whose horses had stampeded, and who were, therefore, unable to get away.