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sailed, a.|seɪld| [f. sail n.1 + -ed2. But cf. OE. ᵹeseᵹled ppl. a. in ᵹeseᵹled scip Sal. & Sat. (Gr.) 225.] Of a vessel: Fitted with sails. Chiefly in parasynthetic derivatives, as full-sailed, white-sailed adjs.
c1611Chapman Iliad xix. 335 Prostrated, in most extreme ill fare, He lies before his high-sail'd fleet, for his dead friend. a1628F. Grevil Sidney (1652) 221 Her Fleet could hardly be over sailed, or under ballasted. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 100 A great heavy boat which seemed to have been a large ships longboat, built into a kind of yacht, but ill masted, and sailed heavily. 1832Tennyson Eleänore iv, How may full-sail'd verse express,..The full-flowing harmony Of thy swan-like stateliness? 1892Black & White 25 June 805/2 Sailed boats lay to be loaded. 1900Westm. Gaz. 16 Aug. 3/2 White-sailed yachts. |