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SAILMAKER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sailmaker mean?
• SAILMAKER (noun)
The noun SAILMAKER has 1 sense:
1. a maker of sails
Familiarity information: SAILMAKER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A maker of sails
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("sailmaker" is a kind of...):
Context examples
The string was of the quality which is used by sailmakers aboard ship, and at once a whiff of the sea was perceptible in our investigation.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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