Sails is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SAILS in dictionary:

VERB:
• SAIL, to be pushed in a boat by the wind
• travel in a boat with sails, especially as a sport or recreation
• travel in a ship or boat using sails or engine power
• begin a voyage; leave a harbour
• travel by ship on or across (a sea) or on (a route)
• navigate or control (a boat or ship)
• move smoothly and rapidly or in a stately or confident manner
• succeed easily at (something, especially a test or examination)
• attack physically or verbally with force.
NOUN:
• a piece of material extended on a mast to catch the wind and propel a boat or ship or other vessel
• the use of sailing ships as a means of transport
• a sailing ship
• a wind-catching apparatus attached to the arm of a windmill.
• the broad fin on the back of a sailfish or of some prehistoric reptiles.
• a structure by which an animal is propelled across the surface of water by the wind, e.g. the float of a Portuguese man-of-war.
• a voyage or excursion in a ship, especially a sailing ship or boat
• the conning tower of a submarine.
• a canvas sheet or tarpaulin
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to move across the surface of water by the action of wind

Words related to SAILS

sail4 sailed7 sailing8

Words that contain SAILS

assails7 mesails9 resails7 daysails12 lugsails9 outsails8 skysails15 topsails10 trysails11 vassails11 vessails11 wassails11 foresails12 gaffsails16 headsails13 mainsails11 moonsails11 oversails12 parasails11 reassails9 staysails12 stunsails9 windsails13 spritsails12 maintopsails16 forestaysails19 studdingsails16

How to use SAILS in a sentence

• The wind had become lighter, but it was still contrary, and the galleys were indebted for their progress much more to their oars than to their sails.
• As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air.
• I might have met such an Aniela ten years ago, when my sails were not, as now, worn to shreds and patches.
• II A breeze rose, the forest murmured, a bird sang, and the sails of the yacht filled.
• Spars serve for spreading the several sails of a vessel.
• Here the Virgin kneels before her desk, expectant, and the angel sails quietly in with a lily.
• Little fishing-boats with brown sails were turning about a given mark.
• At the same time the sails were lowered, and then a rope ladder was thrown down.
• She sailed up the Cydnus to Tarsus in a magnificent vessel with purple sails, propelled by silver oars to the sound of luxurious music.
• Numerous ships, some very crude and with queer sails, were in the harbor as the boys landed, and scores of natives in short skirts were loading and unloading these.
• If she had only had proper sails and rigging she could have tacked against the wind.
• A dip of the sails to the swell of the rising wind, and the snowy heights of Avacha Bay are left on the offing.
• It was likely that the masts and sails had been carried up to the camp, from which place it would have been impossible to remove them without the leader knowing it.
• The sails were loosened to relieve the anchor from the strain of the vessel, and she rode out the ebb tide without drifting.
• Harrie being eliminated, the fat old hypocrite was trimming her sails with hands hardened from long experience.
• After that grand scheme of ours fell so flat it took all the wind out of my sails.
• When they spread all their sails, they go more than a mile and a half a minute, and their motion is so rapid the eye can scarcely accompany them.
• Whenever we had a good breeze and sails were all full, he would come on deck and order shorten sail to check our speed, or we might have been here a month sooner.
• Large ships with swelling sails, the one high above the other, steamers and boats, come and go in varied numbers.
• They traveled in a sailing vessel, and, being delayed by a calm, had to drink water caught in the sails, the water supply having given out.
• Sails went up with a snap all around us, and the creak of blocks sounded far and near.
• They waited impatiently for the word to take in more sail, as it was obvious that they must go with storm sails only for the night.
• I have observed that the ropes to all our sails, the square sails especially, are not of a size and strength sufficient to wear out the canvass.

Similar words containing SAIL without suffix s

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