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Clipper ship
Answer for the clue "Clipper ship ", 6 letters:
sailer
Alternative clues for the word sailer
Word definitions for sailer in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. That which sails; a boat.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sailer \Sail"er\, n. A sailor. [R.] --Sir P. Sidney. A ship or other vessel; -- with qualifying words descriptive of speed or manner of sailing; as, a heavy sailer; a fast sailer.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sailer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Chris Sailer (born 1977), American football player and trainer Friederike Sailer (1920–1994), German soprano Johann Michael Sailer (1751–1832), German Jesuit professor of theology and Bishop ...
Usage examples of sailer.
Every man aboard knew that their vessel was a fine sailer on a bowline.
By a violent effort he rose half out of the water, waving his cap, and uttering a loud shout peculiar to sailers.
They drove around in a slow arc, passing incoming snowmobiles, cross-country skiers, and snowshoers Farther out, there were car races to watch, and farther still, open patches where ice sailers caught the wind in a stream of vivid colors against the snow.
Vineland, all the geometry of the bay neutrally filtered under pre-storm clouds, the crystalline openwork arcs of the pale bridges, a tall power-plant stack whose plume blew straight north, meaning rain on the way, a jet in the sky ascending from Vineland International south of town, the Corps of Engineers marina, with salmon boats, power cruisers, and day sailers all docked together, and spilling uphill from the shoreline a couple of square miles crowded with wood Victorian houses, Quonset sheds, postwar prefab ranch and split-level units, little trailer parks, lumber-baron floridity, New Deal earnestness.
Well, she must be a capital sailer, at all events: look there, a point abaft the beam.
As a result of the several salvage projects he undertook he was able to leave a handsome motor sailer and almost a million dollars' net estate to his daughter.
He had the highest opinion of her captain as a seaman, yet even so he was astonished to learn that he had taken no less than five prizes this voyage - two Port Royal sugar ships whose slowness had separated them from their convoy in the night, and three other West Indiamen with even more valuable cargoes of indigo, coffee, logwood, ebony, old fustic and hides that, being fast sailers, had chanced it on their own - and still more astonished to learn that they had all five been moored in the harbour of Horta, on Fayal, while their captains, the wives of those that sailed in married comfort, and the merchants of their factors had been packed off to France in the schooner, there to make what arrangements they could to ransom themselves, their ships and their cargoes.
Surprise is a very fine ship - no better sailer on a bowline in the service - can give even Druid or Amethyst maintopgallantsails close-hauled - but she has to be trimmed just so to give of her best.
It was a current Baltic joke, but one that newcomers could not know: just before the Russians joined the Allies a facetious captain of the Royal Navy had captured one of their vessels, a very distinctive Tyne-built hermaphrodite, a fine sailer on a bowline, and he had changed her impossible Russian name to this, the only Humbug ever known or likely to be known in the Navy list.
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.