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sailmakers

sailmakers is the plural of sailmaker.

Meaning of sailmaker

Noun

sailmaker (plural sailmakers)

  1. One whose occupation is to make or repair sails.
    • I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 216
  2. (US) An officer in the United States navy who takes charge of the sails.

Questions about sailmakers

What is sailmakers the plural of?
Sailmakers is the plural of sailmaker.

Words near sailmakers in the dictionary

  1. sailingly
  2. sailings
  3. sailless
  4. saillike
  5. sailmaker
  6. sailmakers
  7. sailmaking
  8. sailor
  9. sailor collar
  10. sailor collars
  11. sailor dive

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