What is "to shoot ahead"

Shoot \Shoot\, v. i.

1. To cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; -- said of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target; he shoots better than he rides.

   The archers have . . . shot at him.
   --Gen. xlix. 23.

2. To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or instrument; as, the gun shoots well.

3. To be shot or propelled forcibly; -- said of a missile; to be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if propelled; as, a shooting star.

   There shot a streaming lamp along the sky.
   --Dryden.

4. To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains.

   Thy words shoot through my heart.
   --Addison.

5. To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.

   These preachers make His head to shoot and ache.
   --Herbert.

6. To germinate; to bud; to sprout.

   Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth.
   --Bacon.

   But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain.
   --Dryden.

7. To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly.

   Well shot in years he seemed.
   --Spenser.

   Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot.
   --Thomson.

8. To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.

   If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals.
   --Bacon.

9. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory.

   There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses.
   --Dickens.

10. (Naut.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.

    To shoot ahead, to pass or move quickly forward; to outstrip others.