See also: Sailer

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From Middle English sailer, sayler, saylere, equivalent to sail +‎ -er.

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sailer (plural sailers)

  1. That which sails; a sailboat.
    • 1880, Thomas Hardy, chapter 34, in The Trumpet-Major[1]:
      She is the best sailer in the service, and she carries a hundred guns.
    • 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[2], 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.
  2. (baseball) A fastball that skims through the air.
  3. A butterfly of the genus Neptis
  4. 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."

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