sail
/seɪl/
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Translation
To travel across water in a boat or ship.
Word origin
From Old English seglian, to travel by ship using cloth to catch the wind.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- seglian
Grammar
Verb typeregular (sail, sails, sailed)
Examples
across tomorrow.
Here "sail" means to travel on water in a boat.
.
"Sailed" is the past form of "sail".
fast.
"Sails" is the form used with he, she, or it.
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