sailer
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English
Etymology
From Middle English sailer, sayler, saylere, equivalent to sail + -er.
Noun
sailer (plural sailers)
- That which sails; a sailboat.
- 1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 14:
- The Gulnare was a fast sailer, built for a slaver originally
- 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
- 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.
- (baseball) A fastball that skims through the air.
- A butterfly of the genus Neptis
- Obsolete form of sailor.
- 2002, Cheryl A. Fury, Tides in the Affairs of Men:
- The records of Stepney parish note the burial of Henry Rainsford "an old sailer sometyme beadle of Ratclife and now a pencioner."