Sail
- n. A passage by a sailing vessel; a journey or excursion upon the water.
- n. An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels through the water.
- n. Anything resembling a sail, or regarded as a sail.
- n. A wing; a van.
- n. The extended surface of the arm of a windmill.
- n. A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.
- v. t. To pass or move upon, as in a ship, by means of sails; hence, to move or journey upon (the water) by means of steam or other force.
- v. t. To fly through; to glide or move smoothly through.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.