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Webster 1913 Edition


Sailer

Sail′er

,
Noun.
1.
A sailor.
[R.]
Sir P. Sidney.
2.
A ship or other vessel; – with qualifying words descriptive of speed or manner of sailing;
as, a heavy
sailer
; a fast
sailer
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sailer

SA'ILER

,
Noun.
1.
One that sails; a seaman; usually sailor.
2.
A ship or other vessel, with reference to her manner of sailing. Thus we say, a heavy sailer; a fast sailer; a prime sailer.

Definition 2024


sailer

sailer

English

Noun

sailer (plural sailers)

  1. That which sails; a boat.
    • 1880, Thomas Hardy, The Trumpet-Major
      She is the best sailer in the service, and she carries a hundred guns.
    • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 16,
      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.

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