What is "forereaching"

Usage examples of "forereaching".

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.