outrowing

Updated: July 13, 2026

After remaining some time at a place, we might succeed in occasionally outsailing or outrowing the natives; but what sort of a figure would our boats cut at the next point to which the ship might be ordered say a thousand miles farther from, or nearer to, the equator, where all the circumstances would be totally different.

Basil Hall - The Lieutenant and Commander : Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels