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Definition of Resail
1. v. t. & i. To sail again; also, to sail back, as to a former port.
Definition of Resail
1. Verb. To sail again. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Resail
1. sail [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: sail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Resail
Literary usage of Resail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diplomatic Negotiations of American Naval Officers, 1778-1883 by Charles Oscar Paullin (1912)
"resail was one of the first Asiatics to visit America.5 By 1710 the piratical
voyages of the colonists to the Eastern seas had ceased, and from this time to ..."
2. Diplomatic Negotiations of American Naval Officers, 1778-1883 by Charles Oscar Paullin (1912)
"... "an iron chest of gold, pearls, etc., 40 bails of East India goods, 13 hogsheads,
chests and case, one negro, and Venture resail, a Ceylon Indian. ..."
3. Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789 by William Babcock Weeden (1890)
"40 bails of East India goods, 13 hogsheads, chests and case, one negro and Venture
resail a Ceylon Indian." Besides, there were £14000 of valuables sent up ..."
4. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1892)
"... off the iron chest of gold, pearls, &c., 40 bails of East India goods, 13
hogsheads, chest and case, one negro man, and Venturo resail, an East Indian, ..."
5. The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830)
"... and yet we must wait the resail of ail our actions- before we can know what
is virtuous and what is not. For if virtue and vice have no intrinsic ..."
6. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society by Massachusetts Historical Society (1879)
"We ship off the Iron chest of Gold, Pearls &c., 40 Bails of East-India Goods, 13
hogsheads, chests and case, one Negro Man, and Venturo resail, ..."
7. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society by Massachusetts Historical Society (1892)
"... off the iron chest of gold, pearls, &c., 40 bails of East India goods, 13
hogsheads, chest nnd case, one negro man, and Venture resail, an East Indian, ..."
8. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Discharge this duty, and resail to Greece, Safe and triumphant with the golden
fleet e." They spoke, and vanish'd: from his gaudy bed Jason arose, ..."
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