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"sail" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often jib (3 letters).
Definitions
an ocean trip taken for pleasure
Word origin
From Middle English saile, sayle, seil, seyl, from Old English seġl, from Proto-West Germanic *segl, from Proto-Germanic *seglą. Cognate with West Frisian seil, Low German Segel, Dutch zeil, German Segel, Danish sejl, Swedish segel.
Used in a sentence
“When we haue laught to ſee the ſailes conceiue / And grow big bellied with the wanton winde; […]”
“Take in sail: a storm is coming.”
“Let's go for a sail.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer6 curated clues
01“Boat cloth”4 letters
02“Canvas on a mast”4 letters
03“Triangular boat cloth”4 letters
04“Use wind on water”4 letters
05“Wind-catching boat cloth”4 letters
06“Travel by boat”4 letters
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