sail : Idioms & Phrases

Aft"er-sails` noun

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plural

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1. (Naut.) The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast. Totten.

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• noun any light loose sail
  

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• (Naut.), the method of sailing by the arc of a great circle.

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• noun easy unobstructed progress
  clear sailing; easy going.
  
  • after we solved that problem the rest was plain sailing

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• (Naut.), a combination of parallel and great circle sailing.

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• (Naut.), the extent of a square sail from the head rope to the foot rope; the length of the after leach of a staysail or boom sail; commonly called the drop of sail.

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• (Naut.), a sail or canvas rigged on a stout frame, to be dragged by a vessel through the water in order to keep her head to the wind or to prevent drifting; called also drift sail, drag sheet, drag anchor, sea anchor, floating anchor, etc.

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• . Same as Drag sail. See under Drag, n.

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• noun any sail not set on a yard and whose normal position is in a fore-and-aft direction
  

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Full"-sailed` adjective

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1. Having all its sails set,; hence, without restriction or reservation. Massinger.

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• noun a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff
  gaffsail.
  

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• sailing on the arc of a great circle, or so as to make the shortest distance between two places; circular sailing.

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• the process or art of conducting a ship on a great circle of the globe or on the shortest arc between two places.

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• a sail managed by the hand. Sir W. Temple.

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• noun a triangular fore-and-aft sail used especially in the Mediterranean
  lateen.
  

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• . F. voile latine a sail in the shape of a right-angled triangle; cf. It. & Sp. vela latina; properly Latin sail. See Latin. (Naut.) A triangular sail, extended by a long yard, which is slung at about one fourth of its length from the lower end, to a low mast, this end being brought down at the tack, while the other end is elevated at an angle or about forty-five degrees; used in small boats, feluccas, xebecs, etc., especially in the Mediterranean and adjacent waters. Some lateen sails have also a boom on the lower side.

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• (Naut.), one which tends to lift a vessel's bow out of water, as jibs and square foresails.

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• (Naut.), all the sails above the topsails, with, also, the studding sails and flying jib. Dana.

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• (Naut.), the movement of a ship when she sails upon some rhumb between the four cardinal points, making an oblique angle with the meridian.

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• (Naut.), sailing on a parallel of latitude.

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• noun easy unobstructed progress
  clear sailing; easy going.
  
  • after we solved that problem the rest was plain sailing

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• (Naut.), the method of computing a ship's place and course on the supposition that the earth's surface is a plane.

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• noun the greatest amount of sail that a ship can carry safely
  press of canvas.
  

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• (Naut.), as much sail as the state of the wind will permit.

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• (Naut.), sailing on one of the four cardinal points, so as to alter a ship's latitude or its longitude, but not both. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

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• (Naut.), a purchase for hoisting sails aloft for bending.

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• (Zoöl.), the whiff.

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• a small hook used in making sails, to hold the seams square.

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• a loft or room where sails are cut out and made.

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• (Naut.), a room in a vessel where sails are stowed when not in use.

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• verb succeed at easily
  sweep through; ace; nail; pass with flying colors; breeze through.
  
  • She sailed through her exams
  • You will pass with flying colors
  • She nailed her astrophysics course

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• (Naut.), the yard or spar on which a sail is extended.

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• noun a small sailing vessel; usually with a single mast
  sailboat.
  

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• noun the ship's officer in charge of navigation
  navigator.
  

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• noun a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts
  sailing ship.
  

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• noun a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts
  sailing ship.
  

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• noun a warship that was powered by sails and equipped with many heavy guns; not built after the middle of the 19th century
  

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• noun a race between crews of people in yachts
  yacht race.
  

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• (Naut.), a triangular sail of peculiar form. It is chiefly used to set on a boat's mast.
• (Naut.), a triangular sail carried on a boat's mast; so called from its shape.

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• (Naut.), a small sail in the lee of the galley stovepipe, to prevent the smoke from annoying people on deck.

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• noun a four-sided sail set beneath a horizontal yard suspended at the middle from a mast
  

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• (Naut.), a four-sided sail extended upon a yard suspended by the middle; sometimes, the foresail of a schooner set upon a yard; also, a cutter's or sloop's sail boomed out. See Illust of Sail.

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• (Naut.), any one of a number of strong, heavy sails that are bent and set in stormy weather.

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• (Naut.), an unknown vessel.

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Stud"ding sail`

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1. (Naut.) A light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom. See Illust. of Sail. Toten.

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• to arrange them so as to cause the ship to move astern.

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• (Naut.), to bend it to the yard.

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• (Naut.), to carry an extraordinary amount of sail, with a view to accelerate the speed of a vessel; to carry a press of sail.

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• (Naut.), to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel.

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• (Naut.), to have the wind crossing the direction of a vessel's course in such a way that the sails feel its full force, and the vessel gains its highest speed. See Large, a., 8.

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• (Naut.), to haul the clews close to the sheave hole.

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• (Naut.), to unfurl it.

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• (Naut.), to unfurl or spread sails.

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• (Naut.), to extend an additional quantity of sail.
• . (Naut.) (a) To increase the quantity of sail already extended . (b) To set sail.

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• (Naut.), to affix points through the eyelet holes of the reefs.

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• (Naut.), to sail as close to the wind as possible.

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• (Naut.), to sail with the yards not braced in as sharp as when sailing closehauled, or close to the wind.

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• to sail continuously on one course, following a rhumb line.

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• (Naut.), to extend or spread a sail to the wind.

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• (Naut.), to unfurl or spread the sails; hence, to begin a voyage.

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• (Naut.), to luff up in the wind, causing the sails to shiver. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

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• (Naut.), to reduce the extent of sail, or take in a part.
• (Naut.), to reduce sail by taking it in.

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• (Naut.), to lower the sails suddenly, as in saluting, or in sudden gusts of wind; hence, to acknowledge inferiority; to abate pretension.

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• to cause one to stop, or lose way, as when a vessel intercepts the wind of another. Colloq.

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• (Naut.), to bring it so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.

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• noun a sail set on a yard of a topgallant mast
  topgallant.
  

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• (Naut.), a sailing by compound courses; the method or process of finding the resulting course and distance from a series of different shorter courses and distances actually passed over by a ship.

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• (Naut.), that adjustment, with reference to the wind, witch is best adapted to impel the ship forward.

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• having the sails spread.
• . (Naut.) (a) With anchor up, and under the influence of sails; moved by sails; in motion. (b) With sails set, though the anchor is down. (c) Same as Under canvas (a), above. Totten.

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Wa"ter sail`

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1. (Naut.) A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.

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• the obliquity of the sail, or the angle which it makes with its plane of revolution.

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• . (a) (Naut.) A wide tube or funnel of canvas, used to convey a stream of air for ventilation into the lower compartments of a vessel. (b) The sail or vane of a windmill.

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