Outer

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A shot which strikes the outer of a target.

II. Outer ·v One who puts out, ousts, or expels; also, an ouster; dispossession.

III. Outer ·noun The part of a target which is beyond the circles surrounding the bull's-eye.

IV. Outer ·adj Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place;

— opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump in cricket; the outer world.

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