Sailer

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

That which sails; a sailboat..

Definitions by Sense

1. That which sails; a sailboat.
2. (baseball) A fastball that skims through the air.
3. A butterfly of the genus Neptis
4. Obsolete form of sailor.

Example Sentences

These vessels are handsome to look at, good sailers, and admirable sea-boats, and will make long voyages with perfect safety, traversing the whole Archipelago from New Guinea to Singapore in seas which, as every one who has sailed much in them can testify, are not so smooth and tempest-free as word-painting travellers love to represent them.

She is the best sailer in the service, and she carries a hundred guns.

The Gulnare was a fast sailer, built for a slaver originally[.]

Elsewhere it has been said that in the lack of frigates (of course better sailers than line-of-battle ships) in the English squadron up the Straits at that period, the Indomitable was occasionally employed not only as an available substitute for a scout, but at times on detached service of more important kind.

The records of Stepney parish note the burial of Henry Rainsford "an old sailer sometyme beadle of Ratclife and now a pencioner."

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