make sail

Idioms  

1. see set sail.

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make sail

I have thought we were in a fair way to make sail, a score of times, when some unforeseen difficulty hath arisen.

From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by J. Fenimore Cooper

We think, sir, that we should make sail for the islands.

From Adventures of Hans Sterk The South African Hunter and Pioneer by A. W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

"Lay in, lay in, off the yards!" now shouted the lieutenant; "all hands make sail!"

From Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea by Jonathon Holt Ingraham

Another skipper had got wind of the treasure and was about to make sail for the West Indies in a ship called the Good Intent.

From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Ralph Delahaye Paine

One of the men was the skipper, another the mate, a third the cook; but all hands had to turn to to make sail.

From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Grace Brooks Hill