单词 | outcarry |
释义 | outcarryv.ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > carrying out > execute, perform, or carry out [verb (transitive)] lasteOE ylastc888 wieldeOE doeOE dreeOE forthOE fremeOE workOE affordOE full-bringc1175 fulfila1225 perfurnisha1325 complishc1374 performc1384 achievea1393 chevisea1400 practic?a1425 exploitc1425 execute1477 furnish1477 through1498 practa1513 enure1549 chare1570 enact1597 act1602 to carry out1608 outcarry1611 celebrate1615 complya1616 peract1621 tide1631 implement1837 1611 B. Jonson Char. Authour in T. Coryate Crudities sig. bv But he free from all other Symptomes of aspiring, will easily outcary that. 1879 J. R. Planché Birds i. 96 Plans out carry, great as Barry. 2. transitive. Nautical. To carry more sail than; (hence) to outsail, to sail faster than. Also in extended use. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (transitive)] > outsail another vessel outsail1580 outcarry1631 outbeara1665 wrong1685 1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse v. vi, in Wks. II. 166 The Diuell was wont to carry away the euill; But, now, the Euill out-carries the Diuell. 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. viii. 222 His Britannic Majesty's schooner Gleam, will, from his greater beam, and superior length, outcarry and forereach on you. 1882 Cent. Mag. July 352/1 They have sometimes caught one of them under their lee in a heavy gale, by out-carrying them. 1930 A. MacLeish Immortal Autumn in Coll. Poems (1985) ii. 153 On this sterile air Do words outcarry breath: the sound goes on and on. I hear a dead man's cry from autumn long since gone. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1611 |
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