Sally

/ˈsæli/ · noun

Meaning

A willow..

Definitions by Sense

1. A willow.
2. Any tree that resembles a willow.
3. An object made from the wood of a willow.
4. A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
5. A sudden rushing forth.
6. (figuratively) A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
7. An excursion or side trip.
8. A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.

Example Sentences

The rest of his horsemen the Duke sent to his campe, bicause they heard a great noise there, and doubted the enimies sally, and indeede they had issued foorth thrise, but were alwaies repulsed, especially through the valiantns of the English men that the Duke left there behind him [...]

The besieged made another Sally, and killed several of the Enemy at Penyburn-Hill, but were forced to Retreat, being pressed by the Enemies Horse, who charged us on all sides.

Flocks of these birds stir up flying insects, which can then be picked off in quick sallies.

Till then she had never formed an idea of one so gifted and so charming. She listened with astonishment to her companion's gay sallies, and answers, as piquant as they were ready.

Bull snuffed; he never paid any attention to her sallies but he heard them.

The stakes are low and the story beats are incidental amid the rush of largely mild visual gags and verbal sallies like “Blood Island! So called because it’s the exact shape of some blood!”

Everyone shall know a country better that makes often sallies into it, and traverses it up and down, than he that […] goes still round in the same track.

The troops sallied in desperation.

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Word Forms

• sallies
• salley
• sallying
• sallied

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