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sailers

  • plural
    of sailer.
    sailer
    noun
    a vessel propelled by a sail or sails.

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In the first scene, Daland’s hulking ship is tugged onstage with ropes pulled by a male chorus of sailers.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2020

Rubber dinghies, day sailers, party boats and ocean racers swarmed around the Down Under wonder in a cacophony of blaring horns and Klaxons.

From Time Magazine Archive

Officers hesitate to enforce rules because the new sailers could and perhaps would demand a lengthy explanation before following the orders.

From Time Magazine Archive

These are slow sailers but terrible fighters, and are intended chiefly for harbor defense.

From Four American Naval Heroes Paul Jones, Admiral Farragut, Oliver H. Perry, Admiral Dewey by Mabel Beebe

The Cohasset crossed the path of the Orient mail-packets, the great circle sailers, and they entered their last stretch of Pacific sailing, above the forty-eighth parallel.

From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Norman Springer

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