Word.ws English Dictionary

crowds sail

crowds sail is the third-person singular simple present indicative of crowd sail.

Meaning of crowd sail

Verb

crowd sail (third-person singular simple present crowds sail, present participle crowding sail, simple past and past participle crowded sail)

  1. (dated, idiomatic) To carry an unusual amount of sail in an attempt to accelerate the speed of a vessel.
    • the Spaniards busied themselves in making the most of a sudden favourable change of wind, and, without much regard to order, were crowding sail to get near the land.1827, William James, The Naval History of Great Britain […]

Questions about crowds sail

What is crowds sail the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Crowds sail is the third-person singular simple present indicative of crowd sail.

Words near crowds sail in the dictionary

  1. crowdpleasing
  2. crowds
  3. crowds in
  4. crowds in on
  5. crowds out
  6. crowds sail
  7. crowds together
  8. crowds up
  9. crowdsale
  10. crowdsales
  11. crowdsensing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: crowds sail (page history and authors); crowd sail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “crowds sail.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/crowds_sail. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.