Definition of Sailor

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Definition of Sailor
	Sailor One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman. Related Definitions: Business, Common, Crew, Management, Mariner, Navigating, Of, One, Or, Other, Practical, Seaman, The, Vessel, Who

Sailor Quotations

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Leonardo da Vinci

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
John Locke

I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.
James Cagney

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
Samuel Butler

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
Anna Freud

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.
David Lloyd George

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Walter Scott

A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.
Maria Mitchell

Sailor Translations

sailor in Dutch is zeeman, varensgezel, janmaat
sailor in French is matelot, navigateur
sailor in German is Seefahrer, Matrose, Matrose, Seemann
sailor in Italian is navigatore, marinaio
sailor in Latin is nauta
sailor in Portuguese is marinheiro
sailor in Spanish is marinero, navegante

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