sailour

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A form of sailor — A person who sails; one whose occupation is sailing or navigating ships or other waterborne craft.

Scrabble 7

Meanings

nounsailour (plural sailours)

plural sailours

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of sailor.
    1 more example

    Two pasportes to all Maiours, &c., the one for one John Randall, a maymed sailour that had served in her Majesty’s Fleet against the Spanyardes, to passe into Cornewall, &c., th’other to Elisabeth Randall to travaile with six small children and a daughter in lawe of hers which was blinde to travaile (sic) to Hull in Yorkshire to a brother of hers to place with him some of her children, and bothe these to continewe no longer in force then to the laste of December next ensuinge.

    1900, John Roche Dasent, editor, Acts of the Privy Council of England, volume XX, Mackie & Co., page 74
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APA

sailour. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sailour

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“sailour.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sailour. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sailour,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sailour.

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