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

Instead of obeying the order, the boatman hauled in his sheet, and the sloop began to fill away.

From Stand By The Union by Bridgman, L. J. (Lewis Jesse)

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

Then, at last, along comes you, and you havin’ turned up, I s’pose there’s no reason why we shouldn’t haul down our ensign, swing the head yards, and fill away to complete the v’yage?”

From The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn by Collingwood, Harry

Come, fill away, and let us be moving.

From The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers by Cooper, James Fenimore

"All right, then," said the skipper, chocking his axe viciously into a sapling birch and leaving it there, "I'll fill away on another tack."

From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman