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sailer

sailer noun: that which sails; a sailboat. Also the obsolete form of sailor.

Noun

sailer (plural sailers)

  1. 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...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 184
    • She is the best sailer in the service, and she carries a hundred guns.1880, Thomas Hardy, chapter 34, in The Trumpet-Major
  2. A fastball that skims through the air.
  3. A butterfly of the genus Neptis

Proper noun capitalized: Sailer

Sailer (plural Sailers)

  1. 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...2023 July 16, Rosie Gray, “How Bronze Age Pervert Built an Online Following and Injected Anti-Democracy, Pro-Men Ideas Into the GOP”, in Politico, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2023

Also used as

sailer is also the obsolete form of sailor.

Forms of sailer

Noun
pluralsailers
Proper noun
pluralSailers

Origin of sailer

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

Words formed from sailer

Phrases with sailer

Questions about sailer

What does sailer mean?
Sailer means that which sails; a sailboat.
What part of speech is sailer?
Sailer can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of sailer?
The plural of sailer is sailers.

Words near sailer in the dictionary

  1. sailed
  2. sailed close to the wind
  3. sailed the Red Sea
  4. sailed through
  5. sailed under false colors
  6. sailer
  7. sailers
  8. sailes
  9. Sailesh
  10. sailest
  11. saileth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sailer (page history and authors); Sailer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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