Sail.

You may hoist sail. Cut your stick, be off. Maria saucily says to Viola, dressed in man’s apparel—

“Will you hoist sail, sir? Here lies your way.”—Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, i. 5.

To set sail. To start on a voyage.

To strike sail. (See Strike.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.