sailoring

[ sey-ler-ing ]

noun

1. the occupation or duties of a sailor.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sailoring¹

First recorded in 1860–65; sailor + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Thought I’d like to go on that ocean trip, but I suppose sailoring is harder than lumbering, isn’t it?

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More than five-sixths of their number are already Christians, and have been baptized, and, settled down in comfortable residences, maintain themselves by agriculture or sailoring.

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To these he talked vaguely about seeing a little of Java before he went sailoring again.

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With your excellency's permission I shall show you another side, the side a stranger, unprejudiced, with no axes to grind either way, saw in his eight years of sailoring about these islands.

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Perhaps that was why, throughout my sailoring career, I had always a sneaking sympathy with boys who boarded us, and asked permission to look round.

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