outsail
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of outsail
Example Sentences
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Arthur D. Story; designed to outsail any fishing boat afloat, the Gertrude L. Thebaud will go to the Grand Banks for a summer of fishing to season her for the fish-schooner races in the fall.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the winds pick up as they are predicted to do, many old salts think that Conner, considered the best 12-meter skipper in the world, can outsail the "Plastic Fantastic."
From Time Magazine Archive
"I'm wondering why she can stay so close inshore and outsail us," he said.
From The Argus Pheasant by John Charles Beecham
Porter saw that his vessel could outsail the enemy, but he was not anxious to escape.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley
She could outsail a Yankee smack in a gale off the coast of Labrador, or beat a felucca in the light winds off the Gulf of Genoa.
From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
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