sailorn.
/ˈseɪlə/, U.S. /ˈseɪlər/ 1. in extended use.1847 R. W. Emerson Humble-bee 15 Sailor of the atmosphere.
a. One who is professionally occupied with navigation; a seaman, mariner. Also, in narrower sense, applied (like ‘seaman’) to a member of a ship's company below the rank of officer.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun]
shipmanc900
seamanOE
buscarlOE
shipperc1100
ship-gumec1275
marinerc1300
skipper1390
marinela1400
waterman1421
maryneller1470
seafarer1513
sea-fardingera1550
navigator1574
marinec1575
sailer1585
Triton1589
Neptunist1593
canvas-climber1609
sea-crab1609
tar-lubber1610
Neptunian1620
salt-rover1620
sailora1642
tarpaulin1647
otter1650
water dog1652
tarpauliana1656
Jack1659
tar1676
sea-animal1707
Jack tar1709
sailor-man1761
tarry-breeks1786
hearty1790
ocean-farera1806
tarry-jacket1822
Jacky1826
nautical1831
salt water1839
matelotc1847
knight of the tar-brush1866
main-yard man1867
gobby1883
tarry-John1888
blue jersey1889
lobscouser1889
flat-foot1897
handyman1899
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. i. 31 b Cape S. Ange, very dangerous for saylers.
a1600 Sir A. Barton in Surtees Misc. (1888) 64 The best salers in Christentie!
1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 1 Furnished with shipping and Saylers.]
a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) i. 214 500 Men at Sea, where~of 340 Mariners, 40 Gunners, 120 Sailors.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 58 Nor must the Ploughman less observe the Skies..Than Saylors homeward bent. View more context for this quotation
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 94 Let us e'en turn about, and view honest Jack the Sailor.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms at Commissaire général de la marine It is..the office of the commissaire général to keep a list of the..sailors, able and ordinary.
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 541 She would sit and weep At what a sailor suffers.
1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 354 Nor has a single soldier or sailor been prevented from doing his ordinary duty.
1852 Ld. Tennyson Ode Wellington 86 Thine island loves thee well, thou famous man, The greatest sailor since the world began.
1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. vii. 344 The credulity of sailors is notorious.
b. to be a good sailor [ < French être bon marin] : to be exempt from seasickness.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > [noun] > well adapted or not well adapted
to be a good sailor1832
1832 B. Disraeli Contarini Fleming III. iii. xvi. 90 We were excellent sailors, and bore the voyage without inconvenience.
1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. vi. 142 He wished people who were bad sailors would not travel.
a1895 Ld. C. E. Paget Autobiogr. (1896) iii. 70 He pleaded that he was a wretched sailor.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > with reference to sailing powers
sailer1582
sailora1643
a1643 W. Monson Naval Tracts v, in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. (1704) III. 492/2 10 or 12 Ships, choice Sailors.
1710 London Gaz. No. 4643/4 The Ship Triton,..being the best of Sailors,..is to be sold.
1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida App. 62 She was a heavy schooner of about 70 tons, and a dull sailor.
3. As a name for various animals and plants.† a. Used as a vernacular rendering of nautilus n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Tetrabranchiata > family Nautilidae > member of
sailer1668
sail-shell?1711
nautiloida1728
pearl snail1731
sailor1776
pearly nautilus1800
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 178 Nautilus..the Nautilus, or Sailer.
1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ Tab. x Nautilus tenuis & legitimus... Great brittle Sayler.]
1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. 286 The Pearly Chambered Nautilus, or Sailor.
1815 S. Brookes Introd. Conchol. 156 Paper Nautilus, Paper Sailor, Argonauta Argo.
1815 S. Brookes Introd. Conchol. 156 Great Sailor, Nautilus Pompilius.
b. dialect. A kind of beetle, Cantharis fusca; ‘a child's name for any Telephorus of a bluish colour’ ( Encycl. Dict. 1887).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Cantharidae > genus Cantharides > cantharis fusca (sailor)
sailor1854
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 194 Sailor,..Cantharis fusca.
1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 472 The Telephoridæ..represented in England by the well known beetles, popularly called from their red or bluish colours, Soldiers and Sailors.
c. = sailor-fish n. at Compounds 2 (see Compounds 2).
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Istiophoridae (sailfish)
sail-fish1605
sailor1860
sailor-fish1885
marlin1917
1860 G. Bennett Gatherings of Naturalist in Austral. ii. 24 The Histiophori, or ‘Sailors,’ differ, however, from the Tetrapturi by the greater comparative height of the dorsal fin.
d. Caribbean. (See quot. 1883.)
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the world > animals > fish > unspecified types > [noun]
whalec950
tumbrelc1300
sprout1340
squame1393
codmop1466
whitefish1482
lineshark?a1500
salen1508
glaucus1509
bretcock1522
warcodling1525
razor1530
bassinatc1540
goldeney1542
smy1552
maiden1555
grail1587
whiting1587
needle1589
pintle-fish1591
goldfish1598
puffin fish1598
quap1598
stork1600
black-tail1601
ellops1601
fork-fish1601
sea-grape1601
sea-lizard1601
sea-raven1601
barne1602
plosher1602
whale-mouse1607
bowman1610
catfish1620
hog1620
kettle-fish1630
sharpa1636
carda1641
housewifea1641
roucotea1641
ox-fisha1642
sea-serpent1646
croaker1651
alderling1655
butkin1655
shamefish1655
yard1655
sea-dart1664
sea-pelican1664
Negro1666
sea-parrot1666
sea-blewling1668
sea-stickling1668
skull-fish1668
whale's guide1668
sennet1671
barracuda1678
skate-bread1681
tuck-fish1681
swallowtail1683
piaba1686
pit-fish1686
sand-creeper1686
horned hog1702
soldier1704
sea-crowa1717
bran1720
grunter1726
calcops1727
bennet1731
bonefish1734
Negro fish1735
isinglass-fish1740
orb1740
gollin1747
smelt1776
night-walker1777
water monarch1785
hardhead1792
macaw-fish1792
yellowback1796
sea-raven1797
blueback1812
stumpnose1831
flat1847
butterfish1849
croppie1856
gubbahawn1857
silt1863
silt-snapper1863
mullet-head1866
sailor1883
hogback1893
skipper1898
stocker1904
1883 A. J. Adderley Fisheries Bahamas 7 At certain times of the year myriads of small fish, known as ‘sailors’, arrive at the field and stir up the muddy bottom to such an extent that not a single sponge can be seen.
e. blue sailors: the flowers of the wild chicory.
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1902 Outing June 272/2 The wild chicory, or blue sailors (Cichorium intybus).
4. Short for sailor collar n., sailor hat n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > with a brim > sailor hat
sailor's hat1862
sailor hat1873
sailor1890
1890 Demorest's Family Mag. June 504/2 Boat-shaped, wide-brimmed sailors in white..are worn by either boys or girls for play-hats.
1891 Delineator Sept. 230/1 Ladies' felt sailor hat—A stylish and dressy sailor is pictured here in a dark brown felt.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 5 May 3/2 I have tried in many shops to get a quite round sailor.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 2 July 4/2 Big hats very round in shape need not be avoided, nor Breton sailors.
1922 H. Titus Timber xxix. 252 She pulled the straw sailor tighter over her golden hair.
1943 D. Powell Time to be Born (new ed.) x. 227 Her smart little toasted straw sailor with floating pink veil.
1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 52 Sailor, A collar cut deep and square at the back, narrowing to a ‘V’ in the front. It is often trimmed with braid—as worn by sailors.
1979 D. Eden Storrington Papers vi. 68 Miss Featherstone had whipped off her modest sailor and arranged the light-as-air confection on her head.
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C1. Simple attributive.
a.
sailor fashion n.
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1848 J. F. Cooper Capt. Spike III. 160 Captain Mull was slow to yield his confidence, but when he did bestow it, he bestowed it sailor-fashion, or with all his heart.
sailor mind n.
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1894 A. C. Gunter King's Stockbroker i. 7 Wondering in his sailor mind what the deuce the whole affair means.
sailor phrase n.
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1812 R. Wilson Private Diary 1 June (1862) I. 69 We are now entering the Archipelago, or, according to the sailor phrase, the Arches.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xvi. 169 Every bag was, in sailor-phrase, roped and becketed.
sailor soul n.
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1877 Ld. Tennyson Sir J. Franklin 2 Thou Heroic sailor-soul, Art passing on thine happier voyage now.
b.
sailor-blue adj.
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1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel i. 91 She was waiting for him..looking like a Gibson girl with her neat sailor-blue dress.
1978 J. Krantz Scruples iii. 65 Perhaps his height came from his father, but the bright blond hair and sailor-blue eyes were pure Swedish Viking.
sailor-like adj.
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1805 R. Parkinson Tour in Amer. I. viii. 249 In running races, they ride, sailor-like, generally as quick as the horse can go.
1808 C. Lamb Ulysses in Mrs. Leicester's School (1885) 121 With such sailor-like sayings and mutinous arguments..they [etc.].
c. Appositive (quasi-adj.), ‘That is a sailor’.
sailor-boy n.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > young or inexperienced sailor
younker1592
youngster1608
young man1612
pedee?a1800
sailor-boy1835
sailor-lad1842
sea-pup1897
1835 J. E. Alexander Sketches in Portugal x. 245 I..engaged a Portuguese sailor-boy..to accompany me to Africa.
1855 C. Kingsley Persius in Heroes i. 4 Halcyone..loved a sailor-boy [Ceyx] and married him.
1903 C. E. Osborne Life Fr. Dolling vii The sailor boys from the St. Vincent.
sailor fisherman n.
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1883 G. B. Goode Rev. Fishery Industries U.S. 26 The 20,000 or more men who may properly be designated the ‘sailor fishermen’ of the United States.
sailor-king n.
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1911 C. R. L. Fletcher & R. Kipling School Hist. Eng. 91 He [sc. Edward III] was merchant-king, sailor-king, soldier-king.
1965 Finer & Savage Sel. Lett. J. Wedgwood i. 38 [The Royal patronage] was again extended in 1830 by William IV, the ‘Sailor King’.
1975 B. Meyrick Behind Light xii. 149 King George, the Sailor King, because he had served at sea.
sailor-lad n.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > young or inexperienced sailor
younker1592
youngster1608
young man1612
pedee?a1800
sailor-boy1835
sailor-lad1842
sea-pup1897
1842 Ld. Tennyson Break, break, Break in Poems (new ed.) II. 229 O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay!
sailor-poet n.
d. ‘Consisting of sailors’.
sailor-train n.
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1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. ii. 441 Now descends the sailor train.
e. Similative.
sailor-looking adj.
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1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 168 Paul, with a couple of sailor-looking men, was down at the jetty.
C2. Special combinations:
sailor collar n. (see quot. 1968 at sense 4).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > collar > types of > other
rabat1578
falling band1581
rebato1589
fall1598
piccadill1607
golilla1673
collarettea1685
banda1700
turn-over1716
Vandyke1755
falling-down collar1758
falling collar1770
fall-down?1796
yoke collar1817
rabatine1821
dicky1830
dog collar1852
Piccadilly collar1853
all-rounder1854
all round1855
turnover collara1861
Quaker collar1869
Eton collar1875
Toby collar1885
Eton1887
sailor collar1895
roll-neck1898
Shakespeare collar1907
polo collar1909
white-collar1910
tab collar1928
Peter Pan collar1948
tie-neck1968
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 79/2 Guipure Open work sailor collars.
1932 ‘E. M. Delafield’ Thank Heaven Fasting ii. v. 223 A grey satin blouse, with a black bow in the front of the square sailor collar.
1974 She Jan. 52/2 Braided jacket with square-back sailor collar, £8·50.
1980 Times 22 Oct. 10/7 Sailor collar, shift shape and hip belt.
sailor-fish n. = sail-fish n.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Istiophoridae (sailfish)
sail-fish1605
sailor1860
sailor-fish1885
marlin1917
1885 C. F. Holder Marvels Animal Life 70 The great sail—or sailor—fish (Histiophorus) of the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean.
sailor hat n. a hat such as is worn by sailors; hence applied to a form of hat (with flat brim of even breadth all round) worn by women, and to a different form (with turned-up brim) worn by children.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > with a brim > sailor hat
sailor's hat1862
sailor hat1873
sailor1890
1873 Young Englishwoman Mar. 131/2 Brown velvet sailor hat of two shades.
1912 A. Bennett Matador of Five Towns & Other Stories 46 A quite little girl..with a short frock and long legs, and a sailor hat (H.M.S. Formidable).
1976 Vogue Jan. 48 White tunic..with white duck American sailor hat.
sailor-hatted adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing headgear > wearing a hat > types of
flat-headed1667
straw-hattedc1730
beavered1742
cocked-hatted1821
slouch-hatted1826
high-hatted1858
plug-hatted1869
sun-helmeted1886
pot-hatted1888
sou'-westered1891
cowboy-hatted1896
sombreroed1899
top hat1902
picture-hatted1906
bowler-hatted1909
sailor-hatted1909
tile-hatted1924
Stetsoned1935
trilbied1966
trilby-hatted1975
1909 E. Nesbit Daphne in Fitzroy St. x. 152 ‘It's only me, miss,’ said the sailor-hatted charwoman.
sailor knot n. = sailor's knot n. at Compounds 3.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > knot used by sailors
sailor's knot1843
sailor knot1872
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > neck-tie or cravat > neck-tie > knots used in tying
sailor's knot1843
sailor knot1872
Prince of Wales knot1897
Windsor knot1953
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > knot > any knot used by sailors
sailor's knot1843
sailor knot1872
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It lxii. 447 Black silk neck-cloth tied with a sailor knot.
1939 T. S. Eliot Old Possum's Bk. Pract. Cats 14 The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots.
sailor-knotted adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [adjective] > neck-tie
Teck1895
Jemima1899
sailor-knotted1923
Windsor-knotted1953
1923 W. J. Locke Moordius & Co. viii. 109 With deft fingers she gave his sailor-knotted tie a twist and a pull.
sailor-man n. (a) in informal and jocular use = sense 1; also occasionally an adult sailor; (b) a sailing-barge(man).
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun]
shipmanc900
seamanOE
buscarlOE
shipperc1100
ship-gumec1275
marinerc1300
skipper1390
marinela1400
waterman1421
maryneller1470
seafarer1513
sea-fardingera1550
navigator1574
marinec1575
sailer1585
Triton1589
Neptunist1593
canvas-climber1609
sea-crab1609
tar-lubber1610
Neptunian1620
salt-rover1620
sailora1642
tarpaulin1647
otter1650
water dog1652
tarpauliana1656
Jack1659
tar1676
sea-animal1707
Jack tar1709
sailor-man1761
tarry-breeks1786
hearty1790
ocean-farera1806
tarry-jacket1822
Jacky1826
nautical1831
salt water1839
matelotc1847
knight of the tar-brush1866
main-yard man1867
gobby1883
tarry-John1888
blue jersey1889
lobscouser1889
flat-foot1897
handyman1899
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > sailing-barge
gabbart1487
wherry1589
piragua1667
schooner barge1819
spritsail1867
stumpy1881
sailing-barge1886
spritty1920
sailor-man1948
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > barge > sailing
gabbart1487
Western barge1506
wherry1589
west country1651
piragua1667
schooner barge1819
spritsail1867
stumpy1881
sailing-barge1886
spritty1920
sailor-man1948
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > sailor on barge or lighter > on sailing barge
sailor-man1951
1761 G. Colman Jealous Wife iii. i. 45 The Irish Sailor-Man, for whom I prevailed on your Lordship to get the Post of a Regulating Captain.
1790 R. Tyler Contrast ii. ii. 29 A parcel of sailor men and boys got round me.
1886 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (1899) 61 'Twas Fultah Fisher's boarding-house, Where sailor-men reside.
1948 Sea Breezes VI. 337/2 From Colchester sails Francis & Gilder's large fleet of ‘sailor~men’.
1951 H. Benham Down Tops'l 187 Sailorman, the London River term for either a sailing-barge or a sailing-bargeman.
1961 G. Foulser Seaman's Voice i. 20 The winter of 1936–7 was a rough one, with a lot of windbound intervals for the ‘sailormen’.
sailor pants n. U.S. flared trousers such as those worn by sailors.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose > flared
sailor trousers1851
bell-bottoms1898
Oxford bags1925
Oxford trousers1925
Oxfords1929
sailor pants1931
bell1948
flare1964
loons1971
1931 H. Crane Let. 13 June (1965) 373 My usual household white sailor pants and shirt.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 2 Oct. 18/1 Today Stramler is in white sailor pants and a T-shirt.
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sailor-plant n. U.S. the strawberry-geranium, Saxifraga sarmentosa (Cent. Dict. 1891).
sailor-shape n. the shape worn by sailors, the shape of a sailor hat (also attributive as adj.).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [adjective] > hat > other
round1565
four-corner1640
basoned1728
cockled1745
featherlessa1845
Christy1867
pullover1877
pugreed1881
sailor-shape1897
off-the-face1908
weepered1908
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > with a brim > sailor hat > shape of
sailor-shape1897
1897 Daily News 24 Sept. 6/6 Some of the new felt hats are quite sailor-shape.
1904 Daily Chron. 23 Aug. 8/2 The new French sailor shape of chapeau.
sailor-shaped adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [adjective] > collar > other
button-down1897
sailor-shaped1902
stand-away1914
1902 M.A.P. 29 Mar. 327/1 There were many of the large, round, and sailor~shaped collars now so much worn.
sailor suit n. a suit similar to that of an ordinary seaman, worn mainly by small boys.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > other
shiftc1570
under-suita1586
doublet and hose1603
siropa1671
frock-clothes1769
costume1797
poncho dress1811
tongs1845
Eton suit1859
sailor's suit1869
Prince Albert1873
Norfolk suit1880
sailor suit1880
ready-made1882
Etons1888
buster suit1903
Mallaby-Deeley1920
tiddly suit1943
utility1945
shell suit1973
Mao suit1993
gansey2009
1880 Harper's Mag. Aug. 337/2 Excursionists in sailor suits were playing croquet.
1885 C. M. Yonge Nuttie's Father ii. xii. 145 We can't persuade ourselves to cut his hair, and it looks so lovely on his sailor suit.
1946 G. Millar Horned Pigeon iv. 53 He wore a sailor suit that was much too small for him—clothing that had been provided when a Messerschmitt had shot his Blenheim down into the sea.
1976 Times 27 Feb. 10/5 Susanna Agnelli was born in 1922... She and her brothers and sisters were dressed in sailor suits, blue in winter, white in summer.
sailor-suited adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing a suit or set of clothes > types of
pyjamaed1883
blue-suited1884
bloomered1895
zoot-suited1942
bikinied1959
sailor-suited1960
trouser-suited1966
sack-suited1978
shell-suited1991
1960 Times 3 Aug. 5/2 A juvenile delinquent cousin who appears sailor-suited in the first act.
1977 Times 7 May 9/1 The sailor-suited members of the Vienna Boys' Choir.
sailor top n. a jerkin similar to that worn by sailors; also applied to a ladies' blouse of this design.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > jerkin > types of
black jacka1522
jub1611
sailor top1913
tabard1923
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > bodice > blouse > types of
jerkinetc1686
shell1802
shirt1840
Garibaldi1862
shirt-bodice1868
Norfolk blouse1869
shirtwaist1871
shirt-blouse1876
guimpe1889
overblouse1889
middy1894
blouse coat1898
pneumonia blouse1902
jumper1908
kimono blouse1908
sailor top1913
buba1937
1913 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. i. v. 80 He..wished that he were not compelled to wear a sailor-top that was slightly shabby.
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist i. 7 He had a blue sailor top on.
1962 G. Avery Greatest Gresham i. 20 She had..a navy blue sailor top to her blue serge suit.
1971 Vogue Dec. 70 Gabardine trousers, Sailor top with big bow.
sailor trousers n. U.S. = sailor pants n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose > flared
sailor trousers1851
bell-bottoms1898
Oxford bags1925
Oxford trousers1925
Oxfords1929
sailor pants1931
bell1948
flare1964
loons1971
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. xx. 257 Calzoneros, of green velveteen. These are cut after the fashion of sailor-trousers—short-waist—tight round the hips, and wide at the bottoms.
C3. Possessive combinations: † sailor's hat n. Obsolete = sailor hat n. at Compounds 2. † sailor's suit n. Obsolete = sailor suit n. at Compounds 2 above.
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sailor's Bible n. U.S. slang Bowditch's Navigator (Cent. Dict. 1891).
sailors' blessing n. such rigging or tackle as eases the sailors' work.
sailor's blessing n. Nautical slang a curse.
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the mind > language > malediction > [noun]
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sailor's blessing1876
blessing1878
sailor's farewell1937
the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > curse > [noun] > as everyday imprecation
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > [noun] > that eases sailors' work
sailor's blessing1876
1876 F. W. H. Symondson Two Years abaft Mast ii. 56 Poor ‘doctor’ not unfrequently comes in for a ‘sailor's blessing’ (a growl).
1944 J. Masefield New Chum 166 Being almost new had all the latest sailors' blessings; nothing above her royals, double topgallant yards, a spike jib boom and no spanker gaff.
sailor's choice n. U.S. a name given locally to various American fishes.
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c1860 Holbrook in Goode, etc. Nat. Hist. Aquatic Anim. (1884) 399 The ‘Sailor's Choice’ makes its appearance in our waters about the month of April and continues with us until November.
1879 G. B. Goode Catal. Coll. Animal Resources & Fisheries U.S.: Internat. Exhib. 1876 (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 14) 46 Lagodon rhomboides... Sailor's Choice.
1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 551 Pomadasys fulvomaculatus... Sailor's Choice; Hog-fish.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 80 Diabasis chromis the ‘Sailor's Choice’.
sailor's farewell n. Nautical slang a parting curse.
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the mind > language > malediction > [noun]
cursea1050
malisonc1300
woea1425
evil thee1509
thunderbolt1559
vae1559
thunder-crack1577
ban1590
wish1597
anathema1603
imprecation1603
execration1605
thunder-clap1610
deprecationa1661
effulminationa1670
Maranatha1769
winze1786
cuss1829
sailor's blessing1876
blessing1878
sailor's farewell1937
the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > curse > [noun] > as everyday imprecation
oatha1225
malisonc1300
reproach1485
thunderbolt1559
revilement1577
thunder-crack1577
revile1579
ban1590
wish1597
thunder-clap1610
expletive1647
rapper1675
cuss1771
winze1786
Goddammit1800
goddam1828
dirty word1842
blank1854
emphatic1868
swear1871
sailor's blessing1876
blessing1878
goldarn1879
swear-word1883
rounder1885
curse-word1897
dang1906
sailor's farewell1937
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 722/1 Sailor's farewell, a parting curse.
1974 Listener 10 Jan. 50/3 The sole baker there..found himself ruined, and in some anger he gave the village a sailor's farewell and announced that he was off.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > with a brim > sailor hat
sailor's hat1862
sailor hat1873
sailor1890
1862 Englishwoman's Domest. Mag. 5 142/1 Two styles of hat..seem to be equally in favour this season—one, the sailor's hat with straight brim; the other, the turned-down or bell-shaped hat.
1885 Outing Nov. 138/2 Their round straw hats, with flat-topped crowns, and shape usually termed by Americans ‘sailor's hat’..were trimmed with a plain white ribbon around the crown.
sailors' home n. (see quot. 1867).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > institutional homes > [noun] > for sailors
sailors' home1839
1839 New Orleans Commercial Appeal 18 Apr. 2/2 (heading) Public meeting to promote the establishment of a Sailors' Home.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast 478 The establishment of Sailors' Homes..; the distribution of tracts and Bibles;—are all means which are silently doing great work..
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Sailors' home, a house built by subscription, for the accommodation of seamen on moderate terms.
sailor's knot n. any of the kinds of knot (knot n.1 1) used by sailors; also, a kind of knot used in tying a neck-tie.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > knot used by sailors
sailor's knot1843
sailor knot1872
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > neck-tie or cravat > neck-tie > knots used in tying
sailor's knot1843
sailor knot1872
Prince of Wales knot1897
Windsor knot1953
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > knot > any knot used by sailors
sailor's knot1843
sailor knot1872
1843 E. A. Poe Myst. Marie Rogêt in Ladies' Compan. (N.Y.) Feb. 165/2 The ‘sailor's knot’ with which the bonnet-ribbon is tied.
1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 128/1 Sailors' knots.
sailor's pleasure n. Nautical slang (see quots.).
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society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [noun] > overhauling chests or clothes
sailor's pleasure1856
1856 C. Nordhoff Merchant Vessel 132 Others take what is called, par excellence, ‘sailor's pleasure’, in overhauling their chests, bringing their best clothing on deck to air, and counting over their stock of tobacco and pipes.
1932 J. W. Harris Days of Endeavour 57 They must have a sailor's pleasure on Sunday to see what can be raked up.
1932 J. W. Harris Days of Endeavour 232 Sailor's pleasure, overhauling contents of sea-chest and bag, and airing go-ashore clothes.
1933 P. A. Eaddy Hull Down v. 122 Sunday at sea in a deep-water sailing-ship, especially if the weather is fine, and nearing port the sole topic of conversation, means ‘sailor's pleasure’.
sailor's pocket n.
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sailor's purse n. U.S. the egg case of a skate or oviparous shark (‘in recent U.S. Dicts.’, N.E.D.).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > other
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under-suita1586
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siropa1671
frock-clothes1769
costume1797
poncho dress1811
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Eton suit1859
sailor's suit1869
Prince Albert1873
Norfolk suit1880
sailor suit1880
ready-made1882
Etons1888
buster suit1903
Mallaby-Deeley1920
tiddly suit1943
utility1945
shell suit1973
Mao suit1993
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1869 G. Meredith Let. 19 Dec. (1970) I. 406 You should see Willie Godson in his sailor's suit.
sailor's waiter n. Nautical slang (see quot. 1840).
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1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast iii. 17 The crew call him [the second mate] the ‘sailor's waiter’, as he has to furnish them with spun-yarn, marline, and all other stuffs that they need.
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Short for boardsailor n. at boardsailing n. Derivatives.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > yachting and sailing > [noun] > sailboarding > participant
Windsurfer1969
sailboarder1974
boardsailor1980
sailor1984
1984 USA Today 6 Apr. 2 c/3 The Olympic boardsailing trials are June 12–22... Two weeks earlier, Hall will conduct an elite session..for six sailors, and then he will step back and watch his sailors compete against each other.
1988 Guardian Weekly 22 May 26/1 These park manoeuvres seem to go on for ever. There are three wind-surfing sailors in Bermuda shorts and bellhop tops who roll in on wheeled surfboards and hand out a picnic to the nannies.
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