forereach

English

Etymology

fore- +‎ reach

Verb

forereach (third-person singular simple present forereaches, present participle forereaching, simple past and past participle forereached)

  1. (nautical, intransitive) To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays.[1]
  2. (nautical, transitive) To advance or gain upon; said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing close-hauled.

References
  1. 1841, Richard Henry Dana Jr., The Seaman's Friend

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “forereach”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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