asail

a- +‎ sail.

• IPA^(key): /əˈseɪl/
• Rhymes: -eɪl
• Homophone: assail

asail (not comparable)

1. in the state of sailing
   • 1901, Edward Hutton, Frederic Uvedale: A Romance, page 196:

     Tonight the church seems to have a separate existence, apart from the world or even Rome; to be more spiritual, more insubstantial than even the Trinita there. A ship asail in the Campagna, the only living thing in all that distance, and even then alive but so half-heartedly.

   • 1980, Graham Nash, quoted in 2009, Dave Zimmer, Four Way Street: The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Reader, page 235:

     And that night, Stephen and I went back to my house here in Los Angeles, got drunk and decided that we would try one more time to get this ship asail.

   • 2000, J. N. Williamson, Frights of Fancy, page 234:

     Beautiful, the ocean at night, whether upon or just peering out at it. Beautiful, and teeming infinitely with life, even when there was no ship asail upon its cresting bosom—like now.

• Alais, alias

asail m

1. inflection of asal:
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

asail m sg

1. genitive singular of asal