Definition of "sailors" []

• Plural form of sailor. (noun)

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• "But it was in what he called a sailors 'boarding-house, and one morning, after he had been drinking overnight "with a very pleasant gentleman," he found himself in the forecastle of a ship bound for Holland, and when the mate came and cursed him up and cursed him out he found himself in the foretop."
• "In Nigeria, pirates kidnapped two foreign sailors from a tanker off the coast of the country's restive and oil-rich southern delta."
• "Nine U.S. sailors from the battleship Dolphin, berthed off Tampico, come ashore carrying weapons and are detained (for about thirty minutes) by federal authorities."