Word Meanings - FOREREACH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.

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• SAILBOAT
  A boat propelled by a sail or sails.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• GAINSOME
  1. Gainful. 2. Prepossessing; well-favored. Massinger.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• GAINSAY
  To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother,
• SAILOR
  One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman. Syn. -- Mariner; seaman; seafarer. Sailor's choice. An excellent
• SAILABLE
  Capable of being sailed over; navigable; as, a sailable river.
• SAILMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
• GAINSAYER
  One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. "To convince the gainsayers." Tit. i. 9.
• ADVANCE
  supposed LL. abantiare; ab + ante before. The spelling 1. To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on. 2. To raise; to elevate. They . . . advanced their eyelids. Shak. 3. To raise to a higher rank; to promote. Ahasueres
• ADVANCED
  1. In the van or front. 2. In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers. 3. Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. Hawthorne.
• SAIL
  1. An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels through the water. Behoves him now both sail and oar. Milton. 2. Anything resembling a sail, or regarded as a sail. 3. A wing;
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• CLOSEHAULED
  Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.
• GAINSBOROUGH HAT
  A woman's broad-brimmed hat of a form thought to resemble those shown in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, the English artist (1727-
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• SAILER
  1. A sailor. Sir P. Sidney. 2. A ship or other vessel; -- with qualifying words descriptive of speed or manner of sailing; as, a heavy sailer; a fast sailer.
• ANOTHER-GAINES
  Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
• GAINSTAND
  To withstand; to resist. Durst . . . gainstand the force of so many enraged desires. Sir P. Sidney.
• GAINSTRIVE
  To strive or struggle against; to withstand. Spenser.
• ASSAILMENT
  The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.
• SKYSAIL
  The sail set next above the royal. See Illust. under Sail.
• ASSAILER
  One who assails.
• STUNSAIL
  A contraction of Studding sail. With every rag set, stunsails, sky scrapers and all. Lowell.
• WATER SAIL
  A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.
• TRYSAIL
  A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer. Totten.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• LUGSAIL
  A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail. Totten.
• AGAINSAY
  To gainsay. Wyclif.
• AIR VESSEL
  A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral