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Sail

You may hoist sail. Cut your stick, be off. Maria saucily says to Viola, dressed in man's apparel -

“Will you hoist sail, sir? Here lies your way.” —Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, i.5. To set sail. To start on a voyage. To strike sail. (See Strike.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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