make sail

Idioms  

1. see set sail.

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Example Sentences

The stern lines were slacked off, and Telemakhos commanded: “Rig the mast; make sail!”

From Literature

But he put both his hands around my knees in desperate woe, and said in supplication: ‘Not back there, O my lord! Oh, leave me here! You, even you, cannot return, I know it, I know you cannot bring away our shipmates; better make sail with these men, quickly too, and save ourselves from horror while we may.’

From Literature

Then all the voices rang out, “Be it so!” and “Well spoken!” and “Let our friend make sail!”

From Literature

"We'll wait for daybreak before we make sail," Wyndham remarked.

From Project Gutenberg

Eight a.m.—hands to quarters; clean guns and arms; division for inspection; prayers; make sail, reef topsails, furl top-sails, top-gallant sails, royals; reef courses, down top-gallant and royal yards.

From Project Gutenberg