outwind

From out- +‎ wind.

• IPA^(key): /aʊtˈwaɪnd/

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outwind (third-person singular simple present outwinds, present participle outwinding, simple past and past participle outwound)

1. (transitive) To extricate by winding; to unloose.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     they haue him enclosed so behind, / As by no meanes he can himselfe outwind

   • 1647, Henry More, “[Philosophical Poems.] Psychozoia, or The First Part of the Song of the Soul, Containing a Christiano-Platonicall Display of Life.”, in Alexander B Grosart, editor, The Complete Poems of Dr. Henry More (1614–1687)  (Chertsey Worthies’ Library), Edinburgh University Press; Thomas and Archibald Constable, ] for private circulation, published 1878, →OCLC, canto II, stanza 71, page 25:

     Dear Psittacuse! when shalt thou once outwind / Thy self from this sad yoke?

From out- +‎ wind.

outwind (third-person singular simple present outwinds, present participle outwinding, simple past and past participle outwinded)

1. (transitive) To surpass in wind or breath.
   • 1840, William Gilmore Simms, Border Beagles: A Tale of Mississippi:

     The urchin had an elasticity of muscle, a capacity of stretch and endurance in his sinews, and a share of positive strength in his excessive breadth of shoulders, which made him little inferior in conflict to most ordinary men, and in speed he could have outwinded the best.