to sea (also †to the sea). Out on the water, on a voyage, or on ship-board. to go to sea, to go aboard ship, go on a voyage; to enter upon, or…

to take the sea (also †to take sea, the seas, Middle English †to nim the sea). To go on board ship, embark; to start on a sea-voyage, launch forth…

Phrases (senses 1 2). to come to sail: to set out on a sailing voyage; = sail, v.1 3. ? Also (earlier) in the same sense, to goor fere to (the) sail…

To begin a journey by water; to set sail, start on a voyage; to leave the port or the place of anchorage. Said both of a vessel and of the…

transitive. Nautical. to make sail: (a) to spread a sail or sails; (hence) to start on a voyage; to set sail, to sail; (b) to spread additional…

to set sail: to start on a sea voyage. Also †to set one's sails: to sail.

intransitive. To launch forth, push out.

To push forth, out from land, put to sea, advance seawards; literal and figurative. to launch into eternity: rhetorically for ‘to die’.

Nautical. intransitive. To set off from the land, or from a larger vessel; to set out or start on a voyage. Cf. sense 9c.

Nautical. intransitive. To set off from the land; to go out to sea; to set out on a voyage. Cf. sense 9c.

intransitive. To set out, start on one's way, esp. to sea; to set sail; (also) to make one's way forward. Cf. to put out 11 at phrasal verbs 1.

Phrases (senses 1 2). to come to sail: to set out on a sailing voyage; = sail, v.1 3. ? Also (earlier) in the same sense, to goor fere to (the) sail…

intransitive. To get under weigh.

to take sail: to embark.