sailor

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person who sails; one whose occupation is sailing or navigating ships or other waterborne craft.

   He's a talented sailor and has spent many years at sea.

2. 2
   noun

   A stiff straw hat with a flat, circular brim and a low, flat crown.

   Straw Sailors. Children's large-leaf straw sailors, in new shapes, smooth or rough straw . Sizes 6 to 64. 80c, $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00. Milan sailors in new, large shapes, with white or cream ribbon.

3. 3
   noun

   any member of a ship's crew

4. 4
   noun

   a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown

5. 5
   noun

   a serviceman in the navy

6. 6
   noun

   Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Neptis, Pseudoneptis and Phaedyma, having white markings on a dark base and commonly flying by gliding.

7. 7
   noun

   A brick, for example in a course of brickwork, that is laid vertically on its shortest end (smallest face), with its widest face facing the outside of the wall.

8. 8
   name

   A surname.

Etymology

Alteration of earlier sailer, from Middle English sailer, sayler, saylere, equivalent to sail + -or. Cognate with German Segler (“sailor”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English marinel, marynell (“sailor”) borrowed from Old French marinel (“sailor”). See mariner.