A sudden panic in a herd of buffaloes, causing them to rush away pell-mell. The panic-flight of the Federals at Bull Run, near the Potoʹmac, U.S., in 1861, was a stampede.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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