sail

See:
  • (one's) ship has sailed
  • crowd (on) sail
  • crowd sail
  • hoist your sail when the wind is fair
  • knock the wind out of (one's) sails
  • knock the wind out of sails
  • make sail
  • reef a sail in
  • reef in the sail(s)
  • reef the sail(s)
  • sail against
  • sail against the wind
  • sail along
  • sail around
  • sail before the wind
  • sail close to (near) the wind, to
  • sail close to the wind
  • sail for (some place)
  • sail for some place
  • sail from (some place) to (some place else)
  • sail from some place to some place else
  • sail in
  • sail into
  • sail into (one)
  • sail into someone
  • sail near the wind
  • sail right through something
  • sail through
  • sail through (something)
  • sail through something
  • sail under false colors
  • sail under false colors, to
  • sail under false colours
  • sail up a river
  • sail up the/a/(some) river
  • set sail
  • set sail for (some place)
  • set sail for some place
  • strike sail
  • take the wind out of (one's) sails
  • take the wind out of one's sails
  • take the wind out of sails
  • take the wind out of somebody's sails
  • take the wind out of someone’s sails
  • take the wind out of someone's sails
  • take the wind out of someone's sails, to
  • that ship (has) already sailed
  • that ship has sailed
  • trim (one's) sails
  • trim one's sails
  • trim one's sails, to
  • trim your sails
  • under sail
References in classic literature
"I don't like the look of that sail," said Dab- Dab.
The dog hurried downstairs and dragged up every sail he could find.
Story of Doctor Dolittle
"Come on, lad," he called to me; and we lost no time jumping into our salmon boat and getting up sail.
His sail was all ready to go up, and a moment later it fluttered in the sunshine.
Tales of the Fish Patrol
When at last they sailed in, there was a little crowd to watch them.
The Kingdom of the Blind
There was not a sheet which was not tightened not a sail which was not vigorously hoisted; not a lurch could be charged to the man at the helm.
Around The World In Eighty Days
Meanwhile the schooner gradually fell off and filled again upon another tack, sailed swiftly for a minute or so, and brought up once more dead in the wind's eye.
Treasure Island
Through daylight and dark I follow the bark I keep like a hound on her trail; I'm strongest at noon, yet under the moon, I stiffen the bunt of her sail."
The Sea Wolf
And then, mirabile dictu, between the piers, leaping from wave to wave as it rushed at headlong speed, swept the strange schooner before the blast, with all sail set, and gained the safety of the harbour.
Dracula
The post being thus relieved and strengthened, with an American at its head, and a ship of war about to sail for its protection, the prospect for the future seemed full of encouragement, and Mr.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountain
The stars were dim, and thick the night, The steersman's face by his lamp gleamed white; From the sails the dew did drip-- Till clombe above the eastern bar The horned Moon, with one bright star Within the nether tip.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
He referred to our sail, flapping idly in the wind.
Pellucidar
Loftiest trucks were made for wildest winds, and this brain-truck of mine now sails amid the cloud-scud.
Moby Dick LXVIII CXXXIV
"We have sailed many months, we have sailed many weeks,(Four weeks to the month you may mark), But never as yet ('tis your Captain who speaks) Have we caught the least glimpse of a Snark!
Hunting of the Snark
Then we sailed south to Yokohama, with a big catch of skins in our salt and a heavy pay-day coming.
John Barleycorn