Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Moving under full sail, literally or figuratively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having all its sails set,; hence, without restriction or reservation.
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Examples
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It admits four ice-boat classes: DNs, Renegades, Skeeters and a few grandly restored, full-sailed "stern steerers."
The Need for Speed Usually Leaves Ice Boaters Frozen in Their Tracks Barry Newman 2010
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As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons. entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady her - self loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat.
Sole Music 2010
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It admits four ice-boat classes: DNs, Renegades, Skeeters and a few grandly restored, full-sailed "stern steerers."
The Need for Speed Usually Leaves Ice Boaters Frozen in Their Tracks Barry Newman 2010
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Not only does the exhilarating score, from the full-sailed overture to the lovely final chorus, sound fresher than ever, but the lyrics, by the matchlessly witty likes of John La Touche, Richard Wilbur and, here and there, the composer himself, emerge with delightful clarity.
The Garden Grows 2008
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A handsome woman of some thirty years, with masses of darkest hair cunningly disposed, neck and shoulders beautiful beyond criticism, and dressed in a peignoir of delicate simplicity, came to her husband with a rush smooth as the full-sailed speed of a three-masted schooner.
Ambrotox and Limping Dick Oliver Fleming
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As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons. entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady her - self loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950
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As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons. entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady her - self loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950
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Channel traffic -- full-sailed to that fair breeze -- all about us, and swung slantwise, light as a bladder, elastic as a basket, into the next furrow.
Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900
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As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons, entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat.
A Case of Identity 1891
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