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Sailing

noun

1.

The work of a sailor. Synonyms: navigation, seafaring.

2.

Riding in a sailboat.

3.

The departure of a vessel from a port.

4.

The activity of flying a glider. Synonyms: glide, gliding, sailplaning, soaring.

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.

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"Sailing" Quotes from Famous Books

... that his wooing was not to be all "plain sailing." When Henriette's parents heard of it, they affected to be horrified at the danger in which their beloved daughter was placed. They summoned her home from the perils of Court and a King's passion; and when Henri sent an envoy ...

— Love affairs of the Courts of Europe • Thornton Hall

... through the sharp flints, she showed in a thousand ways how high the gaiety of her animal spirits had mounted. She sang airy little pieces of songs. She uttered single clear notes. She mocked, with a ludicrously feminine croak, the hoarse voice of a crow sailing over them. She rallied Bennington mercilessly on his corduroys, his yellow flapped pistol holster, his laced boots. She went over in ridiculous pantomime the scene of the mock lynching, until Bennington rolled in his saddle with light-hearted laughter, and wondered ...

— The Claim Jumpers • Stewart Edward White

... we have just recorded delayed the sailing of the fleet until the end of June, at which time it left the port of Rochelle, but did not arrive at Quebec until the close of September. The season was then too far advanced to ascend the river to ...

— The Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois • Anon.

... floating lotos-eaters, have ever a touch of the fine old Ulyssean vagrancy. Now and then there stands out before the breeze and the sunlight a great canvassed ship, like some living thing fluttering and glowing and careering under their thrilling touch. And sometimes a fleet of sailing-yachts, more beautiful and swift than sea-gulls, will ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 • Various

... Kronborg soon disappeared in the murky atmosphere, as well as the tower of Helsinborg, which raises its head on the Swedish Bank. And here the schooner began to feel in earnest the breezes of the Kattegat. The Valkyrie was swift enough, but with all sailing boats there is the same uncertainty. Her cargo was coal, furniture, pottery, woolen clothing, and a load of corn. As usual, the crew was small, five Danes doing the whole of ...

— A Journey to the Centre of the Earth • Jules Verne

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