Word Meanings - SAILMAKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.

WHOSESOEVER
The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
OCCUPATION
1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
REPAIRABLE
Reparable. Gauden.
WHOSE
The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
REPAIR
fr. L. repatriare to return to one's contry, to go home again; pref. re- re- + patria native country, fr. pater father. See Father, and 1. To return. I thought . . . that he repaire should again. Chaucer. 2. To go; to betake one's self; to resort;
REPAIRER
One who, or that which, repairs, restores, or makes amends.
REPAIRMENT
Act of repairing.
DISREPAIR
A state of being in bad condition, and wanting repair. The fortifications were ancient and in disrepair. Sir W. Scott.
INOCCUPATION
Want of occupation.
DISOCCUPATION
The state of being unemployed; want of occupation.
AFTER-SAILS
The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast. Totten.
PREOCCUPATION
1. The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession. 2. Anticipation of objections. South.