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To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.

To furnish; to supply adequately. [Obs.] The power appeased, with winds sufficed the sail. Dryden.

An epaulet. [Sailor's Slang] Marryat.

To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.

l with drink. I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers. Milton.

A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc. B…

To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.

A broad hem on the edge of a sail. Totten.

auled (see Illust. of Ship); also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.

applied. -- Tack tackle (Naut.), a small tackle to pull down the tacks of the principal sails. -- Tackle board, Tackle post (Ropemaking), a board, frame, or post, at the end of a ropewalk, for supporting the spindels, or whirls, for twisting the yarns.

Furniture of the masts and yards of a vessel, as cordage, sails, etc.

rehend. (c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail or furl; as, to take in sail. (d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive. [Colloq.] (e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in water. (f) To win by conquest. [Obs.] For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take in. Chapman.…

A sailor; a seaman. [Colloq.] Swift.

A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by sailors and others.

A small coasting vessel, used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib.

To catch a tartar, to lay hold of, or encounter, a person who proves too strong for the assailant. [Colloq.]

both in ancient and modern times, and also by some among civilized nations, especially by sailors.

Sung; close; firm; secure. Taut hand (Naut.), a sailor's term for an officer who is severe in discipline.

One more than nine; twice five. With twice ten sail I crossed the Phrygian Sea. Dryden.

Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument. If you have hitherto concealed his sight, Let it be tenable in your silence still. Shak. I would be the last man in the world to give up his cause when…