fill away

British  

verb

1. (intr, adverb) nautical to cause a vessel's sails to fill, either by steering it off the wind or by bracing the yards

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Example Sentences

But in less than ten minutes, and before they had made a single mile, they saw the Josephine fill away, and stand towards them.

From Down the Rhine Young America in Germany by Optic, Oliver

Then keep your weather eye on me and follow in my wake when I fill away for Newbern.

From True To His Colors by Castlemon, Harry

Immediately ordered the officer to fill away; went on deck, and at a glance perceived that the sail was a brig running clear of us, and some distance astern.

From The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Semmes, Raphael

I now resolved to fill away, stand down toward the equator, and hold myself stationary, for a few days, at the “crossing” of that famous great circle.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael

Orders were given to fill away the foretopsail.

From Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale by Sleeper, John Sherburne