"asail" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "a- + sail.",
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          "ref": "1901, Edward Hutton, Frederic Uvedale: A Romance, page 196",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1980, Graham Nash, quoted in 2009, Dave Zimmer, Four Way Street: The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Reader, page 235",
          "text": "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."
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          "ref": "2000, J. N. Williamson, Frights of Fancy, page 234",
          "text": "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.",
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        "in the state of sailing"
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      "ipa": "/əˈseɪl/"
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      "rhymes": "-eɪl"
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      "homophone": "assail"
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  "word": "asail"
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          "ref": "1901, Edward Hutton, Frederic Uvedale: A Romance, page 196",
          "text": "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.",
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