Phrase Hound found 40 phrases and 31 compound words that contain sails. The most common are listed below. Open sails in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 40
- take the wind out of someone's sailsTo discourage someone greatly; to cause someone to lose hope or the will to continue; to thwart or minimize someone's ambitions.
- electric sailsplural of electric sail: An electric field, in the form of a sail, used as a form of spacecraft propulsion
- light sailsplural of light sail: A solar sail.
- photon sailsplural of photon sail: A solar sail.
- solar sailsplural of solar sail: A sail-like structure on a spacecraft consisting of very large ultrathin mirrors, with propulsion being achieved by the radiation pressure of light from a star or laser.
- square sailsplural of square sail: A sail bent to a horizontal yard set athwartships.
- sprit-sailsplural of sprit-sail: A form of three- or four-sided fore-and-aft sail and its rig, supporting the leech of the sail by means of a sprit.
- studding sailsplural of studding sail: A sail attached to the side of another in a square-rigged ship in order to increase the speed of the vessel.
- trim one's sailsTo adjust a ship's sails to make the best of wind conditions.
- set sailsAlternative form of set sail: To depart on a voyage by boat or ship.
- after-sailsplural of after-sail: One of the sails towards the aft, i.e. on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast.
- balloon sailsplural of balloon sail: A large, light foresail sometimes used instead of a jib.
- drag sailsplural of drag sail: A sea anchor.
- drift sailsplural of drift sail: A sail immersed in the water, used for lessening the drift of a vessel during a storm.
- riding sailsplural of riding sail: A triangular sail.
- sails throughthird-person singular simple present indicative of sail through: To pass or progress quickly and easily.
- sets sailsthird-person singular simple present indicative of set sails: To depart on a voyage by boat or ship.
- setting sailspresent participle and gerund of set sails
- smoke sailsplural of smoke sail: A small sail in the lee of the galley stovepipe, to prevent the smoke from annoying people on deck.
- storm sailsplural of storm sail: A sail of the strongest canvas, for use in stormy weather.
- working sailsplural of working sail: Any of the sails which are used in most kinds of weather: mainsail, foresail, jib and/or mizzen. Sometimes referred to as the lowers.
- crab claw sailsplural of crab claw sail: A type of triangular sail with masts on the upper and lower edges, first developed in Austronesia.
- gaff sailsplural of gaff sail: A quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail supported from a spar rising aft from a mast.
- sails the Red Seathird-person singular simple present indicative of sail the Red Sea: To have vaginal sex with a woman during her menstruation
- sails close to the windthird-person singular simple present indicative of sail close to the wind: To sail in a direction close to that from which the wind is blowing, while still making headway.
Compound words 31
- aftersailsplural of aftersail: One of the sails towards the aft, i.e. on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast.
- circumsailsthird-person singular simple present indicative of circumsail: To sail completely around.
- daysailsthird-person singular simple present indicative of daysail: To sail a yacht for a single day, or to sail by day with overnight accommodation on land
- dunsailsplural of dunsail (alternative form of dunsels).
- foresailsplural of foresail: The lowest (and usually the largest) square sail hung on the foremast
- gaffsailsplural of gaffsail: A topsail above the uppermost or only spanker.
- headsailsplural of headsail: Any sail (of a sailing vessel) set forward of the foremost mast.
- lightsailsplural of lightsail: A solar sail.
- lugsailsplural of lugsail: A quadrilateral sail bent upon a yard that crosses the mast obliquely; a lug.
- mainsailsplural of mainsail: The largest (or only) sail on a sailing vessel.