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Etymology
From Middle English *sayl-makere, equivalent to sail + maker. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sailmoaker, West Frisian seilmakker, Dutch zeilmaker, German Low German Seilmaker, German Segelmacher, Danish sejlmager, Swedish segelmakare.
Noun
sailmaker (plural sailmakers)
- One whose occupation is to make or repair sails.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, , →OCLC, part I, page 216:I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars.
- (US, naval) An officer in the United States navy who takes charge of the sails.
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