put to sea

Verb

Meaning

put to sea (third-person singular simple present puts to sea, present participle putting to sea, simple past and past participle put to sea)

(nautical, of a boat or ship) To leave a port or harbour on a voyage, or for other purposes such as fishing.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

sail sailing navigate embark entrain cast-off sailed unmoor

Examples

He that will not sail until all dangers are over, will never put to sea. Thomas Fuller

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack. Jack Adams

Constitution put to sea on the evening of 22 July 1798 with orders to patrol the Eastern seaboard between New Hampshire and New York. Source: Internet

Quarstein, 2010, p. 46 Because Monitor was an experimental craft, urgently needed, hurriedly constructed and almost immediately put to sea, a number of problems were discovered during her maiden voyage to Hampton Roads and during the battle there. Source: Internet

Actually this day no pirate in his right mind would put to sea; but that’s not important now. Source: Internet

But in 2007, following a hunch, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration oceanographer Richard Feely put to sea on a research trip off the West Coast of North America. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

put to rest put to rights put to rout put to shame put to sleep put to some trouble