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单词 sailer
释义

sailer

See also: Sailer

English

Etymology

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

Noun

sailer (plural sailers)

  1. That which sails; a sailboat.
    • 1880, Thomas Hardy, The Trumpet-Major, Chapter 34,
      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, 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.
  2. (baseball) A fastball that skims through the air.
  3. 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."

Anagrams

  • Alires, Israel, Isreal, Lieras, Sal Rei, ariels, railes, realis, relais, resail, serail, serial
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