Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who sails; a sea-man; a sailor. See sailor, an erroneous spelling now established in this sense.
  • noun A ship or other vessel with reference to her sailing powers or manner of sailing, or as being propelled by sails, not steam.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A sailor.
  • noun A ship or other vessel; -- with qualifying words descriptive of speed or manner of sailing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun That which sails; a boat.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

to sail + -er

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