sailor
- A person who sails; one whose occupation is sailing or navigating ships or other waterborne craft.
- A person who sails; one whose occupation is sailing or navigating ships or other waterborne craft.
- A person who sails; one whose occupation is sailing or navigating ships or other waterborne craft.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Neptis, Pseudoneptis and Phaedyma, having white markings on a dark base and commonly flying by gliding.
- A stiff straw hat with a flat, circular brim and a low, flat crown.
- A brick, for example in a course of brickwork, that is laid vertically on its shortest end (smallest face), with its widest face facing the outside of the wall.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈseɪ.lɚ/
Etymology
In summary
Alteration of earlier sailer, from Middle English sailer, sayler, saylere, equivalent to sail + -or. Cognate with German Segler (“sailor”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English marinel, marynell (“sailor”) borrowed from Old French marinel (“sailor”). See mariner.
navy man
sailor boy
jack tar
sea folk
blue coat
deck-hand
Jack-tar
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