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
- (baseball) A fastball that skims through the air.
- A butterfly of the genus Neptis
- 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
- sailers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sail, sails, sailboat, sailcraft, sailour, sailoring.
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