different between sailer vs saile

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

Noun

saile (plural sailes)

1. Obsolete spelling of sail

Verb

saile

1. Obsolete spelling of sail

Anagrams

• Alesi, ELISA, Elias, aisle, eLISA, slaie

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sal??/

Noun

saile

1. genitive singular of sail

Mutation

Middle English

Verb

saile

1. Alternative form of assailen