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sailer

noun

Etymology

From Middle English sailer, sayler, saylere, equivalent to sail + -er.

  1. inherited from sailer

Definitions

  1. That which sails

    That which sails; a sailboat.

    • 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[.]

  2. A fastball that skims through the air.

  3. A butterfly of the genus Neptis

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Obsolete form of sailor.

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

    2. A surname.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA