sailor
noun
a person whose occupation is sailing or navigation; mariner.
sailorly
-
a word derived from
sailor.
Example Sentences
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I glance down to see that my clothes look sailorly as well, although just as worn and frayed as before.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
Some sailorly instinct, of which I have no recollection whatever, had taken a turn of the rope under my arms and round the yard, and so kept me from slipping away.
From Carette of Sark by John Oxenham
Mate McGaw was a sailorly man and understood how to fit one fact with another.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Holman Day
Now let some quiet observant man of the sailorly sort go round at night and count the boats.
From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by James Runciman
At any rate the men stood, dumb-stricken, the tarry sailorly man a little in front with his mouth open and his yellow dog-teeth gleaming.
From The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
