"sail" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Chase explained to Sharpe that wet sails caught more of a light wind than dry, and it did seem as if the soaked canvas worked better.
- Early mariners noticed that wet sails were more efficient than dry sails, but due to their weight slowed the vessel down.
- It sounds like more fun than a wet sail at night.
- They put the wet sails to dry, stretching them out in the sun.
- He used a little more energy to help spread the wet sail which smothered the fire.
- Manny was in the water, struggling to extricate himself from his wet sail.
- The Muslims avoided the fire by placing wet sails on deck and using long poles to fend off the enemy ships.
- The breeze had let go so suddenly that the way of the ship brought the wet sails heavily against the mast.
- It could turn out a wet sail.
- The Monitor, he discovered, was heavier than he looked - a good two hundred pounds, as limp as a wet sail.
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