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plural sailmakers
One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. quotations examples
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, […], part I, page 216
(US, naval) An officer in the United States navy who takes charge of the sails. examples