sailing
nounEtymology From Middle English seyling, sayling, from Old English seġling, seġlung (“sailing”), from Proto-West Germanic *siglingu, *seglungu, from Proto-Germanic *siglingō (“sailing”); equivalent to sail + -ing. Cognate with Middle Low German sēgelinge (“sailing”), Swedish segling (“sailing”), Icelandic sigling (“sailing”).
1
Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise.
2
Navigation; the skill needed to operate and navigate a vessel.
3
The time of departure from a port.
4
A scheduled voyage by a ferry or ship.
- 'Then I should like a full list of the warships in Pentland Harbour, recent sailings, and those expected, please. The "Navy List" I suppose you have here?'1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:
- New ships were built to the order of the Great Eastern Railway, and the service frequency increased, until March 1879, saw a sailing every weekday to Rotterdam, and a thrice-weekly service to Antwerp.1951 November, K. Westcott Jones, “Parkeston Quay and the Antwerp Continental Service”, in Railway Magazine, page 760:
- Derived terms
- boardsailing, clear sailing, daysailing, land sailing, nonsailing, oblique sailing, plain-sailing, plain sailing, plane sailing, rhumb sailing, sailing boat, sailing dinghy, sailing-ice, sailing-master, sailing ship, sailing vessel, sailing yacht, smooth sailing, stadium sailing, Thames sailing barge, traverse sailing