| 单词 | to run out of sight |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto run out of sight e. transitive. To outsail (a vessel or its occupants). Chiefly in to run out of sight. Now rare.to run the cutter: see Phrases 2r. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [verb (transitive)] > sail faster than outsail1580 to run out of sight1624 outsteam1861 1624 A. Chester in J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia 128 It being but a faire gale of wind, we edged towards her to see what she was, but she presently set saile, and ran vs quickly out of sight. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. v. 177 The Centurion so much outsailed the two prizes, that we soon ran them out of sight. 1797 S. James Narr. Voy. 217 The Hound then ran us out of sight in the space of four glasses. 1839 J. H. Frere tr. Aristophanes Knights 33 in Metrical Version of Acharnians, Knights & Birds (1840) I shall..steer away before the wind, and run you out of sight. 1880 Glasgow Herald 6 July 4/7 No doubt Australia and some other English schooners would run the cutter, but a Chatham flat, with plenty of canvass, would run the Australia and all the schooners ever built. 1895 R. D. Evans Jrnl. 22 May in Sailor's Log (1901) xxix. 367 We came over the bar just behind the Lucania, and the way she ran us out of sight was amusing. 1925 W. C. Williams In Amer. Grain (1956) 8 The caravel Pinta began to run before it at the same time, and Martin Alonzo ran her out of sight. < as lemmas |
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