different between wailer vs sailer

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?we?l?/
• (US) enPR: w??l?r, IPA^(key): /?we?l?/

Rhymes: -e?l?(?)

• Homophone: whaler (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Etymology 1

wail +? -er

Noun

wailer (plural wailers)

1. One who wails or laments.
2. A hired (professional) mourner.

Synonyms

• (hired mourner): moirologist (rare)

Translations

Etymology 2

wail +? -er; see wail (“choose, select”).

Noun

wailer (plural wailers)

1. (mining, historical) A boy employed to pick out stones, pyrites, etc. remaining in the coal after it is screened.

Anagrams

• Lawrie

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