Usually means: Sheet controlling direction, speed, wind.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word SAIL:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. sail: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sail: Merriam-Webster
  3. sail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sail: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sail: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sail, sail: Wordnik
  8. Sail: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. SAIL, sail: Wiktionary
  10. sail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sail: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sail: Dictionary.com
  14. sail (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sail: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SAIL (cable system), SAIL (programming language), Sail (Awolnation song), Sail (Lake District), Sail (anatomy), Sail (disambiguation), Sail (hieroglyph), Sail (letter), Sail (novel), Sail (song), Sail (submarine), Sail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sail: Rhymezone
  20. sail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sail: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SAIL: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Sail: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. sail: FreeDictionary.org
  25. sail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. sail: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. sail: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. sail: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SAIL: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. SAIL (programming language), sail: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. SAIL: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. sail: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sail: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. SAIL: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sail, sail, sail: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sail: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Sail, Sail: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (SAIL)

noun:  (nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.
noun:  (nautical, uncountable) The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.
noun:  (uncountable) The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport.
noun:  A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
noun:  (dated, plural "sail") A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.
noun:  (nautical) The conning tower of a submarine.
noun:  The blade of a windmill.
noun:  A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
noun:  The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
noun:  (fishing) A sailfish.
noun:  (paleontology) an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids
noun:  Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
verb:  To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power.
verb:  To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
verb:  To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
verb:  (intransitive) To set sail; to begin a voyage.
verb:  To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
verb:  (intransitive) To move briskly but sedately.
verb:  (card games, transitive) To deal out (cards) from a distance by impelling them across a surface.
noun:  Acronym of snow avalanche impact landform.

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