full sail
noun
all the sails of a vessel.
full-sailed
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a word derived from
full sail.
Example Sentences
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“Your must and will Shall in your full-sailed confidence deceive you,” A Very Woman, II.,
From Philip Massinger by A. H. Cruickshank
“He said it over-right all that was in the house, and he reddening his pipe at the fire,” replied Mrs. Brickley, in full-sailed response to the helm.
From Humours of Irish Life by Various
That vessel came in here one day last August, a stately, full-sailed bark; nor was it known, till she had anchored, that she was a mass of imprisoned fire below.
From Oldport Days by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Where yonder dancing billows dip, Far off to Ocean's misty verge, Ploughs Morning, like a full-sailed ship, The Orient's cloudy surge.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 by Various
Look at the crowded life on yonder frigate, coming in full-sailed before the steady sea-breeze.
From Malbone: an Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
