sailor

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I would have it known that I can well trust him to write even as I speak, though he has full leave to set aside all hard words and unseemly, such as a sailor is apt to use unawares; and where my Danish way of speaking goeth not altogether with the English, he may alter the wording as he will, so long as the sense is always the same.

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  1. noun One who serves in a navy or works on a ship.
  2. noun One who travels by water.
  3. noun A low-crowned straw hat with a flat top and flat brim.

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  • Or her, if the sailor was a woman, and they'd all dance some more. —  F ;SF - vol 092 issue 01 - January 1997
  • But the burnt air, the sweat pouring out of him, the abrupt clumsy plunge into their little river, blasting him awake in the morning light; all only increased his sense of the women's loveliness, beyond anything he could remember experencing in China, where a sailor was always being taken by the precious blown flower girls in the restaurants. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Fortunately, the sailor was an ugly-looking brute, or she might have given a different answer, she was so angry at the way she was being manhandled. —  Johanna Lindsey - Tender Rebel
  • State Police say it may be weeks before investigators can figure out if the sailor was at the casino drinking. —  WTNH TV
  • He hadn't been talking loud but he lowered his voice still more Don't you know it's illegal I wondered what he was driving at till I remembered that procuring a berth for a sailor is a penal offence under the Act. —  Chance A Tale in Two Parts
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  1. Early modern English also saylor; an erroneous spelling (perhaps prob. due to conformity with tailor, or with the obsolete sailour, a dancer) of sailer: see sailer.
 

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