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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Strike Sail To acknowledge oneself beaten; to eat umble pie. A maritime expression. When a ship in fight or on meeting another ship, lets down her topsails at least half-mast high, she is said to strike, meaning that she submits or pays respect to the other. "Now Margaret Must strike her sail, and learn a while to serve When kings command." Shakespeare; 3 Henry VI., iii. 8. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Slowness | Retard, relax; slacken, check, moderate, rein in, curb; reef; strike sail, shorten sail, take in sail; put on the drag, apply the brake; clip the wings; reduce the speed; slacken speed, slacken one's pace; lose ground. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas. |
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Expression using "STRIKE SAIL": To strike sail. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "STRIKE SAIL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Spanish | arriar las velas. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | згортати вітрила. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-k-l-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: serialist, triskelia. | |
-2 letters: asterisk, klisters, larkiest, realists, riskiest, saltiers, saltires, sarkiest, satirise, silkiest, stalkers, stalkier, starlike. | |
-3 letters: airiest, airless, airlike, alsikes, artless, asslike, kaisers, kilters, kilties, kirtles, klister, laities, lakiest, lasters, liaises, listers, ratlike, realist, relists, resails, retails, sailers, salters, saltier, salties, saltire, satires, serails, serials, silesia, silkier, silkies, siltier, skaters, slakers, slaters. | |
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| 1. Quotations: Familiar 2. Expressions 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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