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Sail   /seɪl/   Listen
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



... grew weaker and weaker. After the wounds were dressed, he handed to Stas papers enclosed in a tin case, entrusted them to his care, and said nothing more. He could not eat, but thirst tormented him terribly. Before sunset he became delirious. He shouted at some imaginary children not to sail too far away on some unknown lake, and afterwards fell into chills, and clasped his head with ...
— In Desert and Wilderness • Henryk Sienkiewicz

... proclamation in Alexandria, calling upon all true Mussulmans to come forward immediately for the protection of their religion, and to commence work at the fortification instantly. Capt. Richards, who paid Mr and Mrs Montefiore a late visit in the evening, said that he should sail the next day after the funeral. He had just come from the Pasha, who told him that the Grand Signor (the Sultan) had given orders to proceed ...
— Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I • Sir Moses Montefiore

... this old town of St. Louis was then only a village, and we just had bought our unknown country of France, and this town was on the eastern edge of it, the gate of it—the gate to the West, it used to be, before steam came, while everything went by keel boat; oar or paddle and pole and sail and cordelle. Ah, Sis, those were ...
— The Young Alaskans on the Missouri • Emerson Hough

... of them quite bright-coloured, pink and yellow. We wandered about on the beach, sitting sometimes on the side of a boat, and walking through the little pools and streams. It was a lonely bit of water. We didn't see a sail. The sea looked like a great blue plain meeting the sky—nothing to break the monotony. We got some very bad coffee at the restaurant—didn't attempt tea. They would certainly have said they had it, and would have ...
— Chateau and Country Life in France • Mary King Waddington

... him the money necessary to provision his party and hire a schooner to carry them to Brazos. It was hard in deed to resist the appeals of this man, who had served me so long and so well, and the result of his pleading was that I gave him permission to sail, and also loaned him the sum asked for; but I have never ceased to regret my consent, for misfortune fell upon the enterprise almost ...
— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan


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