shail

English

Verb

shail (third-person singular simple present shails, present participle shailing, simple past and past participle shailed)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To walk sideways.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for shail in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Irish

Noun

shail

  1. Lenited form of sail.

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sail shail
after an, tsail		 not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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