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free reaching

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noun

Nautical.
  1. sailing on a free reach.


Example Sentences

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In three minutes it was gone from sight, truly free, reaching up to where no man-made thing had ever touched.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just as curtly, the U.S. apologized and Flight 253A was set free, reaching Japan with a planeload of grubby, bearded troopers bound for Cam Ranh Bay in Viet Nam.

From Time Magazine Archive

The gills are free, reaching the stem, at first ventricose, then linear, brownish-black.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha