DCHP-1 Online
stampeding 
adj. rushing wildly in a headlong fashion.
- c1902 At fording-places on the Qu'Appelle and Saskatchewan . . . carcasses of buffalo have been found where the stampeding herd trampled the weak under foot, virtually building a bridge of the dead over which the vast host rushed.
- 1956 Hal rapped the gunwale with his paddle and heard what he did not want to hear--the rumbling sound that only a very large school of stampeding salmon make.
- c1902 At fording-places on the Qu'Appelle and Saskatchewan . . . carcasses of buffalo have been found where the stampeding herd trampled the weak under foot, virtually building a bridge of the dead over which the vast host rushed.