Sail
.“Will you hoist sail, sir? Here lies your way.”—Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, i. 5.
To set sail. To start on a voyage.
To strike sail. (See Strike.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.