Meaning

An outer or exterior court..

Definitions by Sense

1. An outer or exterior court.
2. (basketball, handball) The other half of the court from the goal one is aiming for.
3. (basketball, handball) Playing or played on the outcourt.
4. (law) Occurring outside the courtroom; adjudicated outside of a trial.
5. (basketball, handball) On the outcourt.
6. (transitive) To woo or court in a better, more successful or more assiduous manner.

Example Sentences

the skirts and outcourts of heaven

There is an outcourt or quadrant, whereof one side is a gallery to walk in, being in length six hundred feet.

If it is made up of those who shall persevere in holiness to the end of life, and be saved with an everlasting salvation, the church on earth being, as it werre, the outcourt and emblem of the church in heaven, and the church militant composed of those who shall form the church triumphant, then infants have properly no place in it.

About the middle of June, 1642, the Residence of the Fathers at St. Marys-on-the-Wye, its outcourt and surrounding buildings, slept in dreamy, peaceful slumber.

Offensive player in the middle of the outcourt receives a pass from one of his teammates.

For Calvin it was Rog Postmus with 18, mostly from outcourt, Duane Rosendahl with 16, Stu Sisco with 15, and Preston "Butts" Kool had 10.

[…] shows that all shots are taken from outcourt, this is not necessarily true because it is possible, by reversing direction, for the dribbler to catch his guard overplaying him and drive in for a layup.

Special mention is due Abadie, 03, Heyman, 04, whose outcourt playing is excellent, and Roos, '04, who has shown good judgment in placing the ball.

Word Forms

• outcourts
• outcourting
• outcourted

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