The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forereach \Fore*reach"\, v. t. (Naut.) To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
Forereach \Fore*reach"\, v. i. (Naut.)
To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays.
--R. H. Dana,
Jr.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context nautical English) To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays. 2 (context nautical English) To advance or gain upon; said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing close-hauled.
Usage examples of "forereach".
This in itself was an ill thing, for, as all well knew, a child who is to have the foresight and the forereach must come into the world at that time: the last moment of one day and the first of the next.
This was his simple plan: he would edge down, never allowing her to forereach him, keeping rigorously to windward, puzzling her as long as he possibly could, and so batter her at close quarters, keeping her there by taking the wind out of her sails.
All that remained was to wait while the master took the Polychrest down into action, foiling every attempt at forereaching, keeping her just so in relation to the wind and the Bellone - to last out those minutes while the gap was narrowed.
They had hauled their wind and they were forereaching on the Diligence diverging from the stranger's course.
We are forereaching on her, as you see, and we mean to haul our wind, shoot up, cross her stem, rake her, wear and rake her again, and fly for our lives before she can yaw: we are twice as nimble, you know, and with our carronades we can fire twice as fast.
But Tregare told of time and time-that Elzh could wait cycles while his ships were made like to Tregare's, and still find forereaching Tsa ships sooner than by leaving without changes.
By virtue of her vastly superior speed she was forereaching both upon the convoy and the escort.