To cause to rush as in a stampede.
1860. The Indians first attempted to stampede the stock.—Oregon Argus, Nov. 24.
1864. “Well, when they got within about three hundred yards of us they set up one of their devilish yells, and come on at hot jump. They thought they could stampede us; but we belonged to the army of the Potomac,” said the Sergeant, with a gleam of pride in his honest gray eye.—Harper’s Weekly, viii. 652/2 (Oct. 8).
1890. The Indians often drove them [the buffalo] to a bluff, knowing that if stampeded they would leap down the steepest declivity, and plunging below on their huge heads, it became an easy affair to finish them with the knife if they were not killed outright.—Mrs. Custer, ‘Following the Guidon,’ p. 267 (N.Y.).
