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Sail

verb

(past & past part. sailed; pres. part. sailing)

1.

Traverse or travel on (a body of water). "He sailed the Pacific all alone"

2.

Move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions. Synonym: sweep. "Shreds of paper sailed through the air" , "The searchlights swept across the sky"

3.

Travel on water propelled by wind. "The ship sails on"

4.

Travel on water propelled by wind or by other means. Synonyms: navigate, voyage.

noun

1.

A large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel. Synonyms: canvas, canvass, sheet.

2.

An ocean trip taken for pleasure. Synonym: cruise.

3.

Any structure that resembles a sail.

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"Sail" Quotes from Famous Books

... experience—save the anxious expectancy of a sail by castaways on a desert island—could equal the intense eagerness with which this question was asked, and the answer awaited. To thousands now hanging on the verge of eternity it meant life or death. Between the first day of July ...

— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy

... from the landing on the Rock, forty-six men, women, and children, or nearly one-half of the Mayflower's passengers had perished of disease and hardships, and the survivors saw the vessel that brought them sail away to the land of their birth. To the surviving women of that devoted Pilgrim band this departure of the Mayflower must have added a new pang to the grief that was already rending their hearts after the loss of so many dear ones during that fearful winter. ...

— Woman on the American Frontier • William Worthington Fowler

... a little over a year had passed. The professor, having found he could successfully navigate the air, turned his attention to the water, and began to plan a craft that would sail beneath ...

— Under the Ocean to the South Pole - The Strange Cruise of the Submarine Wonder • Roy Rockwood

... Frigates were ever on the watch in the Straits to chase any French vessels that left port. But our chief efforts were to blockade the enemy's ships. Despite constant ill-health and frequent gales, Nelson clung to Toulon. Admiral Cornwallis cruised off Brest with a fleet generally exceeding fifteen sail of the line and several smaller vessels: six frigates and smaller craft protected the coast of Ireland; six line-of-battle ships and twenty-three lesser vessels were kept in the Downs under Lord Keith as a central reserve force, to which the news of all events ...

— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose

... that the steamer we expect to take at Bunder Guz, the port of Asterabad, eight farsakhs distant, will not sail until six days later. Mindful of the fever, from which he is still a sufferer to an uncomfortable extent, E———looks a trifle glum at this announcement, and, after our traps are unpacked at Mahmoud ...

— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens

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