单词 | to set one's sails |
释义 | > as lemmasto set one's sails b. to set sail: to start on a sea voyage. Also †to set one's sails: to sail. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > set out on a voyage to go to seac900 to take the seac1275 to go or fere to (the) saila1375 sail1387 to make saila1500 to set sail1513 lance1526 launch1534 to put off1582 to put out?1587 to put forth1604 to come to sail1633 underweigh1891 to take sail1904 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. xiii. 69 That salflie throw the se It may be lefull thai thare salis set. 1599 R. Bodenham in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 100 After the sayde dayes expired, I wayed & set saile for the Iland of Chio. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 227 On the sixt of June they were licensed to set sail. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 507. ¶6 When Pompey was desired not to set Sail in a Tempest that would hazard his Life. 1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 180 He reimbarked in the frigate, and directly set sail. 1890 T. F. Tout in F. Y. Powell et al. Hist. Eng. III. 118 Buonaparte set sail from Toulon. < as lemmas |
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