"strike sail" meaning in English

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      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hoist sail"
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          "ref": "1568, André Thevet, translated by Thomas Hacket, The New Found World, or Antarctike, London: Thomas Hacket, Chapter, page 62",
          "text": "[…] at the last, famine and other necessities, caused them in the ende to strike sayle and let fall anker.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "1627, John Donne, Sermon 24 in Fifty Sermons, London: M.F. et al., Volume 2, 1649, p. 202,\n[…] a ship which hath struck Sail, will yet goe on with the winde it had before, for a while,"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1652, John Selden, Of the Dominion or Ownership of the Sea, London, Book 2, Chapter 26, p. 402",
          "text": "It was accounted Treason, if any Ship whatsoëver had not acknowledged the Dominion of the King of England in his own Sea, by striking Sail:",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1656, Robert Sanderson, “Ad Populum”, in Twenty Sermons Formerly Preached, London: Henry Seile, page 408",
          "text": "So many new unexpected accidents happen every hour, which no wit of man could foresee; that may make it necessary for us many times to depart from our former most advised resolutions: as the Mariner must strike sail again, (perhaps when he hath but newly hoyst it up,) if the winde and weather change.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Heroism”, in Essays, Boston: James Munroe, page 215",
          "text": "[…] O friend, never strike sail to a fear. Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To lower the sails (in preparation for dropping anchor, to salute or signal submission, in sudden gusts of wind, etc.)."
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        "(nautical, archaic) To lower the sails (in preparation for dropping anchor, to salute or signal submission, in sudden gusts of wind, etc.)."
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          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to lower the sails",
          "word": "laskea purjeet"
        }
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        {
          "text": "(obsolete)"
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          "ref": "1661, Joseph Glanvill, The Vanity of Dogmatizing, London: Henry Eversden",
          "roman": "And unto modest Ign’rance vail.",
          "text": "Let vaunting Knowledge now strike sail,",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1713, John Arbuthnot, An Invitation to Peace: or, Toby’s Preliminaries to Nestor Ironsides, London: Mr. Lawrence, page 11",
          "text": "[…] do you think, Sir, that Mr. Ironsides, who has been well bred, a good Scholar, and a topping Wit, will ever strike Sail to a Fool[?]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1822, Walter Scott, chapter 1, in The Pirate, volume 3, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, page 8",
          "text": "I speak in the house of my friend as in my own, and strike sail to none.",
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        "To acknowledge one's inferiority (to another person); to abate pretension."
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        "(figurative, obsolete) To acknowledge one's inferiority (to another person); to abate pretension."
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        },
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        },
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1656, Robert Sanderson, “Ad Populum”, in Twenty Sermons Formerly Preached, London: Henry Seile, page 408",
          "text": "So many new unexpected accidents happen every hour, which no wit of man could foresee; that may make it necessary for us many times to depart from our former most advised resolutions: as the Mariner must strike sail again, (perhaps when he hath but newly hoyst it up,) if the winde and weather change.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Heroism”, in Essays, Boston: James Munroe, page 215",
          "text": "[…] O friend, never strike sail to a fear. Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.",
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        }
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        "(nautical, archaic) To lower the sails (in preparation for dropping anchor, to salute or signal submission, in sudden gusts of wind, etc.)."
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          "ref": "1661, Joseph Glanvill, The Vanity of Dogmatizing, London: Henry Eversden",
          "roman": "And unto modest Ign’rance vail.",
          "text": "Let vaunting Knowledge now strike sail,",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1713, John Arbuthnot, An Invitation to Peace: or, Toby’s Preliminaries to Nestor Ironsides, London: Mr. Lawrence, page 11",
          "text": "[…] do you think, Sir, that Mr. Ironsides, who has been well bred, a good Scholar, and a topping Wit, will ever strike Sail to a Fool[?]",
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        },
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          "text": "I speak in the house of my friend as in my own, and strike sail to none.",
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        "To acknowledge one's inferiority (to another person); to abate pretension."
      ],
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        "(figurative, obsolete) To acknowledge one's inferiority (to another person); to abate pretension."
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to lower the sails",
      "word": "laskea purjeet"
    }
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  "word": "strike sail"
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