Definition of sails

"sails" in the noun sense

1. sail, canvas, canvass, sheet

a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel

2. cruise, sail

an ocean trip taken for pleasure

3. sail

any structure that resembles a sail

"sails" in the verb sense

1. sail

traverse or travel on (a body of water

"We sailed the Atlantic"

"He sailed the Pacific all alone"

2. sweep, sail

move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions

"The diva swept into the room"

"Shreds of paper sailed through the air"

"The searchlights swept across the sky"

3. sail

travel on water propelled by wind

"I love sailing, especially on the open sea"

"the ship sails on"

4. voyage, sail, navigate

travel on water propelled by wind or by other means

"The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow"

Source: WordNet® (An amazing lexical database of English)

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Quotations for sails

A sturdy oak, which nature forms
To brave a hundred winter's storms.
While round its head the whirlwinds blow.
Remains with root infix'd below:
When fell'd to earth, a ship it sails
Through dashing waves and driving gales
And now at sea, again defies
The threatening clouds and howling skies. [ Hoole ]

Behold the threaden sails.
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Breasting the lofty surge. [ William Shakespeare ]

He was a man
Versed in the world as pilot in his compass;
The needle pointed ever to that interest
Which was his loadstar; and he spread his sails
With vantage to the gale of others' passions. [ Ben Jonson ]

Yet the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle. [ Ben Jonson ]

When Nature fills the sails, the vessel goes smoothly on; and when judgment is the pilot, the insurance need not be high. [ Sir T. Browne ]

With poetry, as with going to sea, we should push from the shore and reach a certain elevation before we unfurl all our sails. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go. [ Mme. du Chatelet ]

When the wandering demon of Drunkenness finds a ship adrift - no steady wind in its sails, no thoughtful pilot directing its course - he steps on board, takes the helm and steers straight for the maelstrom. [ Holmes ]

There are so many things to lower a man's top-sails - he is such a dependent creature - he is to pay such court to his stomach, his food, his sleep, his exercise - that, in truth, a hero is an idle word. Man seems formed to be a hero in suffering, not a hero in action. Men err in nothing more than in the estimate which they make of human labor. [ Cecil ]

Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession. [ Ruskin ]

sails in Scrabble®

The word sails is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

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sails in Words With Friends™

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

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Word Growth involving sails

Shorter words in sails

ai ail ails

ai ail sail

Longer words containing sails

assails reassails

assails wassails

circumsails

gaffsails

headsails

jibsails

junksails

lugsails

mainsails

outsails

parasails

resails squaresails

rotorsails

skysails

spritsails

staysails

steeringsails

studdingsails

topsails

trysails

turbosails

watersails

wingsails