outsail

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• Other privateers were huge three-masters, carrying heavy batteries, and able to outsail any of the enemy's ships.

• I can outsail you and outfight you all—and to hell with you!

• All sails were set upon the "Horn o' Plenty," but it soon became plain that she could never outsail the corsair vessel.

• What yachts, as a tribute to ourselves upon their own element, would we rather outsail than English yachts?

• Mr Steers thinks that a shallow vessel, with a sliding keel, can be built to outsail any vessel even on his improved model.