OUTER TURNS and Inner Turns. The outer turns of the earing serve to extend the sail outwards along its yard. The inner turns are employed to bind the sail close to the yard.
OUTFIT. The stores with which a merchant vessel is fitted out for any voyage. Also, the providing an individual with clothes, &c.
OUT-FLANK, To. By a longer front, to overlap the enemy's opposite line, and thus gain a chance to turn his flank.
OUT-HAUL, or Out-hauler. A rope used for hauling out the tack of a jib lower studding-sail, or the clue of a boom-sail. The reverse of in-haul.
OUT-HOLLING. Clearing tide-ports, canals, and channels of mud.
OUTLANDISH. Foreign; but means with Jack a place where he does not feel at home, or a language which he does not understand.
OUTLET. The effluent or stream by which a lake discharges its water. Also applied to the spot where the efflux commences.
OUT-LICKER. A corruption of [out-rigger] (which see).
OUT-LIER. A word which has been often used for out-rigger, but applies to outlying rocks, visible above water.
OUT-OARS. The order to take to rowing when the sails give but little way on a boat.