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free reaching

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noun

Nautical.
  1. sailing on a free reach.


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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

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

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 Miron Elisha Hard

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