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a person who voluntarily lives on the one surface designed to kill them.
means A person who works aboard or navigates a ship, especially as a member of its crew.
from From Middle English 'sailer,' a doer-word built on 'sail' — itself from Old English 'segl,' shared with German 'Segel' and other Germanic tongues for the cloth that catches wind. The spelling drifted to 'sailor' over time, perhaps nudged by the agent-ending '-or' seen in Latin-flavored words like 'tailor' and 'governor.' At root, then, a sailor is simply 'one who sails' — one who lives by the sail.
- scurvy fix
- Citrus cure ignored 200 years, killing millions of sailors
- superstition
- Bananas onboard still considered bad luck on fishing boats
- old age
- Average career death wasn't drowning, it was disease
- tattoo code
- Swallows inked per 5,000 nautical miles sailed
- language gift
- Phrases like 'loose cannon' and 'overhaul' came from ships
popeye — cartoon sailor character created by e.c. segar in 1929, famous for eating spinach
jessica watson — australian sailor who circumnavigated the world solo at age 16 in 2010
ellen macarthur — british sailor who broke the solo round-the-world record in 2005, sailing 42,195 nautical miles in 71 days