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A "sally" means a rush of defenders from a besieged place, attempting to get past the besiegers by taking them by surprise. It also has the more general meaning of an excursion, such as the going forth to a crusade. It means literally a "leaping out," and comes from the Latin word salire, "to leap."
"And then we came forth to behold again the Stars;" and who came from his ascent through purifying Purgatory with Rifatto si, come piante novelle Rinnovellate di novella fronda, Puro e disposto a salire alle stelle "So made anew, like young plants in spring with fresh foliage, I was pure and disposed to come forth among the Stars;" and who must end his Paradiso and his life-work announcing
And in the midst of the bridge I shall wait awhile and look on Arno. Then I shall cross the bridge and wander upstream towards Porta S. Niccolò, that gaunt and naked gate in the midst of the way, and there I shall climb through the gardens up the steep hill "... Per salire al monte Dove siede la chiesa...."
Smelt was formerly applied to any small fish and comes, perhaps, from the Anglo-Saxon smeolt, which meant smooth the smoothness and slipperiness of the fish suggesting the name. Salmon comes directly from the Latin salmo, a salmon, which literally meant the leaper, from salire to leap.
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