strike sail
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.92 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To lower the sails (in preparation for dropping anchor, to salute or signal submission, in sudden gusts of wind, etc.).
Archaic
Example Sentences
- "[…] at the last, famine and other necessities, caused them in the ende to strike sayle and let fall anker."
- "1627, John Donne, Sermon 24 in Fifty Sermons, London: M.F. et al., Volume 2, 1649, p. 202, […] a ship which hath struck Sail, will yet goe on with the winde it had before, for a while,"
- "It was accounted Treason, if any Ship whatsoëver had not acknowledged the Dominion of the King of England in his own Sea, by striking Sail:"
- "So many new unexpected accidents happen every hour, which no wit of man could foresee; that may make it necessary for us many times to depart from our former most advised resolutions: as the Mariner must strike sail again, (perhaps when he hath but newly hoyst it up,) if the winde and weather change."
- "[…] O friend, never strike sail to a fear. Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas."
- "(obsolete)"
Usage
Inflected Forms
strikes sail (present, singular)
striking sail (participle, present)
struck sail (past)
struck sail (participle, past)
stricken sail (archaic, participle)
Synonyms
Antonyms
hoist sail