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Sailer

name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

    "Alamariu announced on Twitter he was restarting his account — though it’s unclear when or if he posted on the account previously, as no earlier posts are visible — and tagged far-right figures like Steve Sailer and Ann Coulter. “hi Steve I closed my account before but reopened to post some new articles. Hope you follow back! You might be interested in this one about Brazil,” he wrote to Sailer."

Noun
  1. 1
    That which sails; a sailboat.

    "She is the best sailer in the service, and she carries a hundred guns."

  2. 2
    A fastball that skims through the air.
  3. 3
    A butterfly of the genus Neptis
  4. 4
    Obsolete form of sailor. alt-of, obsolete

    "The records of Stepney parish note the burial of Henry Rainsford "an old sailer sometyme beadle of Ratclife and now a pencioner.""

Etymology

From Middle English sailer, sayler, saylere, equivalent to sail + -er.

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