asail

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/əˈseɪl/

adjective

in the state of sailing

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Meanings

adjectiveasail (not comparable)
  1. not comparablein the state of sailing

    And that night, Stephen and I went back to my house here in Los Angeles, got drunk and decided that we would try one more time to get this ship asail.

    1980, Graham Nash, quoted in 2009, Dave Zimmer, Four Way Street: The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Reader, page 235
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    Tonight the church seems to have a separate existence, apart from the world or even Rome; to be more spiritual, more insubstantial than even the Trinita there. A ship asail in the Campagna, the only living thing in all that distance, and even then alive but so half-heartedly.

    1901, Edward Hutton, Frederic Uvedale: A Romance, page 196

    Beautiful, the ocean at night, whether upon or just peering out at it. Beautiful, and teeming infinitely with life, even when there was no ship asail upon its cresting bosom—like now.

    2000, J. N. Williamson, Frights of Fancy, page 234

Origin

From a- + sail.

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Rhymes & wordplay

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Anagrams

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APA

asail. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/asail

MLA

“asail.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/asail. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “asail,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/asail.

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