Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to shail
Participle: shailed
Gerund: shailing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | shail |
| you | shail |
| he;she;it | shails |
| we | shail |
| you | shail |
| they | shail |
Perfect
| I | have shailed |
| you | have shailed |
| he;she;it | has shailed |
| we | have shailed |
| you | have shailed |
| they | have shailed |
Past
| I | shailed |
| you | shailed |
| he;she;it | shailed |
| we | shailed |
| you | shailed |
| they | shailed |
Pluperfect
| I | had shailed |
| you | had shailed |
| he;she;it | had shailed |
| we | had shailed |
| you | had shailed |
| they | had shailed |
Future
| I | will shail |
| you | will shail |
| he;she;it | will shail |
| we | will shail |
| you | will shail |
| they | will shail |
Future Perfect
| I | will have shailed |
| you | will have shailed |
| he;she;it | will have shailed |
| we | will have shailed |
| you | will have shailed |
| they | will have shailed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | shail |
| you | shail |
| he;she;it | shail |
| we | shail |
| you | shail |
| they | shail |
Perfect
| I | have shailed |
| you | have shailed |
| he;she;it | have shailed |
| we | have shailed |
| you | have shailed |
| they | have shailed |
Imperfect
| I | shailed |
| you | shailed |
| he;she;it | shailed |
| we | shailed |
| you | shailed |
| they | shailed |
Pluperfect
| I | had shailed |
| you | had shailed |
| he;she;it | had shailed |
| we | had shailed |
| you | had shailed |
| they | had shailed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would shail |
| you | would shail |
| he;she;it | would shail |
| we | would shail |
| you | would shail |
| they | would shail |
Perfect
| I | would have shailed |
| you | would have shailed |
| he;she;it | would have shailed |
| we | would have shailed |
| you | would have shailed |
| they | would have shailed |
Imperative
| you | shail |
| we | Let's shail |
| you | shail |
Verbs conjugated like 'shail'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'shail'
hail,
sail,
shall,
shawl,
smail,
snail,
ail,
assail,
avail,
bail,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Possibly from Old English sceolh: askew, awry, oblique, slanted.
Sample Sentences
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The mysterious woman meandered up the street, shailing and leaning precariously at times.
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...some were amiable for favour, perfect of bodie, yet ill legged; other, which were well legde, shaled with their feete, or were splafooted... [1876 [1593], anonymous author, Tell-Trothes New-Yeares Gift and The Passionate Morrice, &c., London: The New Shakspere Society, The Passionate Morris, page 82:]
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Child, (ſays the Mother) You muſt Uſe your ſelf to Walk Streight, without Skewing, and Shailing ſo Every Step you ſet: Pray Mother (ſays the Young Crab) do but ſet the Example your ſelf, and I'll follow ye. [1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Anianus, &c.] Fab[le] CCXXI. An Old Crab and a Young.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 193:]
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"Fancy her white hands getting redder every day, and her tongue losing its pretty up-country curl in talking, and her bounding walk becoming the regular Hintock shail and wamble!"
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"She may shail, but she'll never wamble," replied his wife, decisively. [1904 [1887], Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, New York and London: Harper & Brothers, page 80:]