different between sailer vs nailer

English

Etymology

From Middle English sailer, sayler, saylere, equivalent to sail +? -er.

Noun

sailer (plural sailers)

1. That which sails; a boat.
   • 1880, Thomas Hardy, The Trumpet-Major, Chapter 34,^[1]

     She is the best sailer in the service, and she carries a hundred guns.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 16,^[2]

     Elsewhere it has been said that in the lack of frigates (of course better sailers than line-of-battle ships) in the English squadron up the Straits at that period, the Indomitable was occasionally employed not only as an available substitute for a scout, but at times on detached service of more important kind.

2. (baseball) A fastball that skims through the air.
3. Obsolete form of sailor.
   • 2002, Cheryl A. Fury, Tides in the Affairs of Men

     The records of Stepney parish note the burial of Henry Rainsford "an old sailer sometyme beadle of Ratclife and now a pencioner."

Anagrams

• Alires, Israel, Isreal, Lieras, Sal Rei, ariels, railes, realis, relais, resail, serail, serial

English

Etymology

From Middle English nayler; equivalent to nail +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ne?l?/
• Rhymes: -e?l?(?)

Noun

nailer (plural nailers)

1. One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker.
2. One who fastens with, or drives, nails.
3. A nailgun.
4. A piece of dimensional lumber and/or plywood secured to the deck or wall which provides a receiving medium for the fasteners. (Sometimes referred to as blocking.)

Anagrams

• Arline, Erlian, Irelan, LINEAR, Lanier, Linear, aliner, enrail, lanier, larine, linear, renail