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sailer

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sailer [ˈseɪlə]
n
(Transport / Nautical Terms) a vessel, esp one equipped with sails, with specified sailing characteristics a good 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.
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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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