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noun

Sailor n. One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.

Synonyms: Mariner; seaman; seafarer.

Sailor's choice. (Zool.)

(a)

An excellent marine food fish (Diplodus rhomboides, syn. Lagodon rhomboides) of the Southern United States; called also porgy, squirrel fish, yellowtail, and salt-water bream.

(b)

A species of grunt (Orthopristis chrysopterus syn. Pomadasys chrysopterus), an excellent food fish common on the southern coasts of the United States; called also hogfish, and pigfish.

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Etymology of 'Sailor'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sailor" Quotes from Famous Books

... such word Was ever spoke or heard; For up stood, for out stepped, for in struck amid all these —A Captain? A Lieutenant? A Mate—first, second, third? 40 No such man of mark, and meet With his betters to compete! But a simple Breton sailor pressed deg. by Tourville for the fleet, deg.43 A poor coasting-pilot he, Herve Riel the ...

— Browning's Shorter Poems • Robert Browning

... fair weather. It is always best to speak of the weather first, isn't it?—so that we can have our minds free for other things. It hasn't been at all rough; even Leila, who isn't a good sailor, has been able to stay on deck and people are so much interested in her. She seems such a child for her widow's black. Oh, what children they were, my boy Barry and his little wife, and yet they were man and woman, too. Leila ...

— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey

... The sailor, of all men, venerates his nation's flag. To him it is the visible and tangible token of the government he serves, and in it he beholds all the government's strength and virtue. To William Driver, therefore, the Stars and Stripes ...

— How the Flag Became Old Glory • Emma Look Scott

... chance to see this quaint old fellow. He was Irish, with many fine humorous wrinkles about his eyes and mouth. He seemed to breathe through his pipe, so constantly did he inhale it, and just how he kept his sailor's blouse so clean, and his worn clothes so neat, was a trick he had learned in his younger days in ...

— The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay - The Secret of the Red Oar • Margaret Penrose

... the crested waves, and stumbled to her cabin. "It is nothing," she explained to fellow-passengers who offered assistance thinking she was likely to collapse, "only a stupid attack of dizziness—I thought I was a better sailor, that's all," ...

— Banked Fires • E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi

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