Crossword clues for sailmaker
sailmaker
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sailmaker \Sail"mak`er\, n. One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
Wiktionary
n. One whose occupation is to make or repair sails.
WordNet
n. a maker of sails
Wikipedia
A sailmaker makes and repairs sails for sailboats, kites, hang gliders, wind art, architectural sails, or other structures using sails. A sailmaker typically works on shore in a sail loft. The sail loft has other sailmakers. Large ocean-going sailing ships often had sailmakers in the crew. The sailmaker maintained and repaired sails. This required knowledge of the sailmaker's craft and the tools of the sailmakers loft on shore.
Today, one of a sailmaker's important jobs is to teach people how to set and trim their sails to get the most out of them. Sometimes a sailmaker will accompany the client out on the water and adjust the sails. The modern sailmaker uses computer-aided design and manufacturing tools. Computer graphics allow the sailmaker to produce a "lines drawing" of the sail. Once the design is complete, the sailmaker can now use a low-power laser to cut the material to the exact shape.
Usage examples of "sailmaker".
Our excellent sailmaker, Ronne, sewed forty-six sets of harness in the course of the month.
Our sailmaker, Ronne, was transformed into a -- well, let us call it tailor.
It had been made by our able sailmaker, R:onne, and was of very thin windproof gabardine.
Lynn Flewelling The following evening Rythel rode out from Sailmaker Street just as expected.
At any rate, we parted company there a few hours ago and I followed him down to Sailmaker Street.
Tym kept watch over the Sailmaker Street house, but reported nothing beyond RytheFs expected movements between there and the sewer site.
But Rythel did return to Sailmaker Street, and not long after Seregil and Alec turned back toward the Palace.
It seemed a certain tenant on the top floor of the Sailmaker Street house was buying information about the sewers, information only a Scavenger or runner was privy to, so to speak.
They waited until it was full dark, then rode down to Sailmaker Street.
Mr Watt, let the sailmaker and his party get to work on the square mainsail directly, and send the new hands aft one by one.
He was certain the sailmaker had been told at the last minute, and that the other men he claimed he had also told would turn out to be difficult to name.
It was here that the sailmaker was already at work, patching the leaks.
I did not know that Elsa Lee also was watching until, having requested Jones, who had been a sailmaker, to thread the needles, his trembling hands refused their duty.
The blacksmiths, the sailmakers, the carpenters, the water-tenders, to a degree the storekeepers, functioned as before, tending to the fabric of the ship, renewing, replacing, reworking.
There he stood, very quietly overlooking some sailmakers who were mending a top-sail in the waist.