Meaning of besail | Babel Free

Definitions

To attack or assail; lunge at or toward; assault.

archaic, poetic, rare, transitive

Examples

“The civvies and the brakesmen, with clubs they did me besail; They marched me right straight over to the Albany Jail […]”

“The narrow besailed giants stood with long limbs rooted deep in the surface. Every so often a leg would ponderously rise and anchor itself elsewhere, as a sifter repositioned itself with the changing wind.”

“No mater what besails us, no matter how much pain, loss or sorrow we endure, something deep within us rises to the occasion, in fusing us with Strength and Courage to get beyond what ever this world of earthly existence throws in our unknowing paths […]”

“He remembered a vision which once besailed him suddenly.”

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