Sailer

Sail′er

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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

.

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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.

sailer ‎(plural sailers)

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.