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sailmaker en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English *sayl-makere, equivalent to sail + maker. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sailmoaker, West Frisian seilmakker, Dutch zeilmaker, German Low German Seilmaker, German Segelmacher, Danish sejlmager, Swedish segelmakare.

Meanings

1. One whose occupation is to make or repair sails.
   • I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars. 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 216:
2. (US) An officer in the United States navy who takes charge of the sails.

Forms

Translations (22)

nb seglmaker (occupation) · it velaio (occupation) · kw gwreer gooliow (occupation) · tr yelkenci (occupation) · pl żaglownik (occupation) · fi purjeompelija (occupation) · pap belero (occupation) · fr voilier (occupation) · fy seilmakker (occupation) · tl maglalayag (occupation) · sv segelmakare (occupation) · nb seilmaker (occupation) · ca veler (occupation) · da sejlmager (occupation) · cs výrobce plachet (occupation) · ru парусный мастер (occupation) · fi purjeentekijä (occupation) · de Segelmacher (occupation) · ota یلكنجی (occupation) · he תּוֹפֵר מִפְרָשִׂים (occupation) · nl zeilmaker (occupation) · es velero (occupation)