sailer

See also: Sailer

English

Etymology

sail + -er

Noun

sailer (plural sailers)

  1. That which sails; a boat.
    • 1880, Thomas Hardy, The Trumpet-Major, Chapter 34,
      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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