Definition of "sailer" []

• That which sails; a boat. (noun)

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• "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.""