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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