sailer
noun
- boat or ship suited to sailing
Wiktionary
name
- A surname.
“Alamariu announced on Twitter he was restarting his account — though it’s unclear when or if he posted on the account previously, as no earlier posts are visible — and tagged far-right figures like Steve Sailer and Ann Coulter. “hi Steve I closed my account before but reopened to post some new articles. Hope you follow back! You might be interested in this one about Brazil,” he wrote to Sailer.”
noun
Etymology: From Middle English sailer, sayler, saylere, equivalent to sail + -er.
- That which sails; a sailboat.
“These vessels are handsome to look at, good sailers, and admirable sea-boats, and will make long voyages with perfect safety, traversing the whole Archipelago from New Guinea to Singapore in seas which, as every one who has sailed much in them can testify, are not so smooth and tempest-free as word-painting travellers love to represent them.”
“She is the best sailer in the service, and she carries a hundred guns.”
- A fastball that skims through the air.
- A butterfly of the genus Neptis
- Obsolete form of sailor.
“The records of Stepney parish note the burial of Henry Rainsford "an old sailer sometyme beadle of Ratclife and now a pencioner."”