gain the wind

gain the wind (third-person singular simple present gains the wind, present participle gaining the wind, simple past and past participle gained the wind)

1. (nautical, archaic) To reach the windward side of another ship.

   Synonym: weather

• “gain”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.