sail/sale
A homonym for tide is tied.
The homophone of "tied to a mast" is "tide to amass." They sound the same but have different meanings.
The words with the same pronunciation are technically "homophones."YOUR - personal possessive adjective (pronoun yours)YOU'RE - contraction of the words "you are"YORE - (archaic, literary) the far past, bygone times, e.g. days of yore*Proper noun : YOR, The Hunter from the Future (1983 Reb Brown film)
The homonym of "drenched" is "drentched."
sail/sale
A homonym for tide is tied.
The homophone of "tied to a mast" is "tide to amass." They sound the same but have different meanings.
He was tied up to the mast of the ship so only he could hear the song of the sirens, not his crew.
Ulysses was tied to the mast of his ship by his men.
death hanging on the mast being tied to the mast and shot being thrown over board
Yes, Odysseus and his crew were tempted by the Sirens' enchanting song as they passed by. In order to resist their allure, Odysseus had his men plug their ears with beeswax and had himself tied to the ship's mast to avoid succumbing to the Sirens' song.
Odysseus sailed his ship past the reefs where sirens sing, irresistibly drawing sailors to wreck their ships on the rocks. He had his men put wax into their ears to block the songs. However, he wanted to hear the songs, and if not tied to the mast, he would have tried to go to the sirens and would have drowned.
They tied him to the mast of the ship, and stuffed their own ears. They watched him to make sure he didn't escaped, and tied him tighter when his ropes loosened under his strength.
He is tied to the mast of his ship by rope, while his fellow sailors (with wax in their ears) row quickly away.
The halyard (a line, NOT a rope) keeps it tied up to the mast (that vertical post-thing).
The words with the same pronunciation are technically "homophones."YOUR - personal possessive adjective (pronoun yours)YOU'RE - contraction of the words "you are"YORE - (archaic, literary) the far past, bygone times, e.g. days of yore*Proper noun : YOR, The Hunter from the Future (1983 Reb Brown film)