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Use "sailer" in a sentence
"That spending like a drunken sailer is so trite it is an embarassment."
"a good crew, and being armed with two Whitworth rifled guns aft, one large 56-gun forward, and two 32s on her quarter-deck, and, being a fast sailer, is well suited to capture merchant ships, and run from war-vessels of superior armament but inferior speed."
""Why, yes, Cross," replied I; "she is a very fast sailer, that is evident, and she might have escaped us.""