(nautical, archaic) To lower the sails (in preparation for dropping anchor, to salute or signal submission, in sudden gusts of wind, etc.).

(nautical) To extend an additional quantity of sail (i.e. to spread a sail or sails). / (figuratively) To embark; start a voyage.

(nautical) To sail as close to the wind as possible.

(nautical) Sailing by compound courses; the method or process of finding the resulting course and distance from a series of different shorter courses and distances actually passed over by a ship.

A small sail in the lee of the galley stovepipe, to prevent the smoke from annoying people on deck.

An electric field, in the form of a sail, used as a form of spacecraft propulsion

plural of sailing boat

(nautical). A quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail supported from a spar rising aft from a mast.

plural of sail-plan

plural of sail coat