Meaning

verb traverse or travel on (a body of water)

noun a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel

verb move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions

originFrom Middle English sailen, saylen, seilen, seilien, from Old English seġlan, siġlan (“to sail”), from Proto-West Germanic *siglijan, from *siglijaną. Cognate with West Frisian sile, Low German seilen, Dutch zeilen, German segeln, Danish sejle, Swedish segla, Icelandic sigla.

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