sailing
verbadjectivenouncommon in dialogue
- //ˈseɪ.lɪŋ//
Travelling by ship.
verb
- 1
Also a form of sailpresent participle and gerund of sail
Etymology
From Middle English saylinge, seilinge, variants of sailende, seilende; equivalent to sail + -ing. Cognate with Dutch zeilend (“sailing”).
adjective
- 1
Travelling by ship.
noun
- 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?'
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.
Etymology
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”).
Forms
- plural
- sailings