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WordBand 6–7Core (NGSL)
sail
/seɪl/
verb1 of 2
to travel on water in a ship or boat
- “He sailed off into the night for another fishing trip.”Tatoeba
- “The leaves sail to the ground one after the other.”Tatoeba
Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.
noun2 of 2
The blade of a windmill.
Source: New General Service List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)