sailmakerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

sailmaker (plural sailmakers)

1. One whose occupation is to make or repair sails.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 216:

     I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars.

2. (US, naval) An officer in the United States navy who takes charge of the sails.

参照

• “sailmaker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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