Meanings
verbput to sea (third-person singular simple present puts to sea, present participle putting to sea, simple past and past participle put to sea)
present singular third person puts to sea · participle present putting to sea · alternative put out to sea
- nauticalTo leave a port or harbour on a voyage, or for other purposes such as fishing.
The sun was rising for the third time since he had put to sea when the fish started to circle.
1952 September 1, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 86Synonyms: go to sea, take to the sea
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo leave a port or harbour on a voyage, or for other purposes such as fishing.
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Translations
German in See stechen
- in See stechento leave port
Italian prendere il largo
- prendere il largoto leave port
Polish wypływać w morze, wypłynąć w morze
- wypływać w morzeto leave port
- wypłynąć w morzeto leave port
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