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▸ noun: (nautical, uncountable) The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.
▸ noun: (uncountable) The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport.
▸ noun: A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
▸ noun: (dated, plural "sail") A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.
▸ noun: (nautical) The conning tower of a submarine.
▸ noun: The blade of a windmill.
▸ noun: A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
▸ noun: The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
▸ noun: (fishing) A sailfish.
▸ noun: (paleontology) an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids
▸ noun: Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
▸ verb: To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power.
▸ verb: To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
▸ verb: To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To set sail; to begin a voyage.
▸ verb: To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To move briskly but sedately.
▸ verb: (card games, transitive) To deal out (cards) from a distance by impelling them across a surface.
▸ noun: Acronym of snow avalanche impact landform.
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