put to sea

English

Alternative forms

• put out to sea

Verb

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

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

   Synonyms: go to sea, take to the sea

   Hypernyms: put out, set sail < set out, start out

   • 1952 September 1, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 86:

     The sun was rising for the third time since he had put to sea when the fish started to circle.

Translations

to leave port

• German: in See stechen (de)
• Italian: prendere il largo (it)
• Polish: wypływać w morze impf, wypłynąć w morze pf

References

• “put out to sea”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.