Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Inadequately equipped with sails.
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- adjective obsolete Inadequately equipped with
sails .
Etymologies
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under- + sailed
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Examples
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She was much undermasted and undersailed, yet she went well through the water, considering that she was very foul.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784
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