different between hailer vs sailer

English

Etymology

• hail +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?he?l?/
• Homophone: haler

Noun

hailer (plural hailers)

1. A person who or a device which calls, summons loudly, or hails.
   • 1880, Thomas Hardy, Fellow Townsmen, ch. 1:

     "Hullo, Downe—is that you?" said the driver of the vehicle, a young man of pale and refined appearance. "Jump up here with me, and ride down to your door."

     The other turned a plump, cheery, rather self-indulgent face over his shoulder towards the hailer.

     "O, good evening, Mr. Barnet—thanks," he said.

Derived terms

• loudhailer

Anagrams

• halier

Scots

Adjective

hailer

1. comparative degree of hail

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