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Sailer

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Sail´er
n.1.A sailor.
2.A ship or other vessel; - with qualifying words descriptive of speed or manner of sailing; as, a heavy sailer; a fast sailer.
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In a little time we began to feel the want of better stores, and thought ourselves happy in meeting with a gelve, which, though small, was a much better sailer than our vessel, in which I was sent to Suaquem to procure camels and provisions.
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The ship named after him was worthy of the honor, being a very fast sailer and a noble craft every way.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
She was a screw propeller of eight hundred tons, a fast sailer, and the very vessel that had been sent out to the polar regions, to revictual the last expedition of Sir James Ross.
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