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 ; aboat .
Etymologies
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Examples
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That spending like a drunken sailer is so trite it is an embarassment.
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a good crew, and being armed with two Whitworth rifled guns aft, one large 56-gun forward, and two 32s on her quarter-deck, and, being a fast sailer, is well suited to capture merchant ships, and run from war-vessels of superior armament but inferior speed.
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"Why, yes, Cross," replied I; "she is a very fast sailer, that is evident, and she might have escaped us."
Percival Keene Frederick Marryat 1820
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They call that a cut fastball now, but it’s what we used to call a sailer.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004
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They call that a cut fastball now, but it’s what we used to call a sailer.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004
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They call that a cut fastball now, but it’s what we used to call a sailer.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004
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They call that a cut fastball now, but it’s what we used to call a sailer.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004
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They call that a cut fastball now, but it’s what we used to call a sailer.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004
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They call that a cut fastball now, but it’s what we used to call a sailer.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004
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This former sailer casts his vote for allowing homosexuals to serve openly.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Light at the End of the DADT Tunnel 2010
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