ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Sailer

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Sailer is a noun meaning That which sails; a sailboat.

Meaning

That which sails; a sailboat.

More Meanings

  1. (baseball) A fastball that skims through the air.
  2. A butterfly of the genus Neptis
  3. Obsolete form of sailor.

Example Sentences

The Gulnare was a fast sailer, built for a slaver originally[.]
She is the best sailer in the service, and she carries a hundred guns.
The records of Stepney parish note the burial of Henry Rainsford "an old sailer sometyme beadle of Ratclife and now a pencioner."
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.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sail, sails, sailboat, sailcraft, sailour, sailoring.

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