sailer

plural sailers

1. That which sails; a sailboat.

   The Gulnare was a fast sailer, built for a slaver originally[.]

   1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 14

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   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.

   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

   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.

   1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.

2. ball gamesA fastball that skims through the air.
3. A butterfly of the genus Neptis
4. obsoleteObsolete 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."

   2002, Cheryl A. Fury, Tides in the Affairs of Men

plural Sailers

1. A surname.

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   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.

   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