sailmaker

[ seyl-mey-ker ]

noun

1. a person who makes or repairs sails.
2. a former rank of warrant officer in the U.S. Navy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sailmaker¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; sail + maker

Example Sentences

Active free Black communities, led by men such as the brilliant Philadelphia sailmaker James Forten, managed to prevent the most extreme of such laws from sweeping into states such as Pennsylvania and New York.

From Washington Post

That means a sailmaker in Maine making masks and university veterinary departments loaning ventilators to ill-equipped hospitals.

From Washington Times

North Sails was the world’s biggest sailmaker when he sold it in 1984 and retired.

From Washington Post

It was the world’s biggest sailmaker when he sold it in 1984 and retired.

From Seattle Times

This from a surfman named Mr. Canning, a sailmaker by trade but a surfman, like all of them, with no name but that when a ship wrecked in these waters.

From Literature