let go by the run

English

Verb

let go by the run (third-person singular simple present lets go by the run, present participle letting go by the run, simple past and past participle let go by the run)

1. (nautical, dated) To loosen and let run freely, as lines; to let fall without restraint, as a sail.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “let go by the run”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)