outˈcarry, v.
[f. out- 15 b, 18 + carry v.]
† 1. trans. To carry out, accomplish. Obs.
| 1611 Char. Author in Coryat's Crudities, But he free from all other symptomes of aspiring will easily outcary that. |
2. Naut. To carry more sail than; hence, to outsail, sail faster than.
| 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle viii. (1859) 158 His Britannic Majesty's schooner Gleam will from his greater beam and superior length outcarry and forereach on you. 1844 W. H. Maxwell Sports & Adv. Scotl. xiii. (1855) 119 If the breeze freshened, the Clorinde outcarried the schooner. |