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noun the work of a sailor
noun riding in a sailboat
noun the departure of a vessel from a port
originFrom Middle English seyling, sayling, from Old English seġling, seġlung (“sailing”), from Proto-West Germanic *siglingu, *seglungu, from Proto-Germanic *siglingō (“sailing”); equivalent to sail + -ing. Cognate with Middle Low German sēgelinge (“sailing”), Swedish segling (“sailing”), Icelandic sigling (“sailing”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0