Definition of sailor:

part of speech: noun

A seaman; a mariner.

Usage examples:

• I couldn't think what he meant, as I never guess things with a double meaning, so he explained that he has got work as a sailor for the voyage across. Stephen Leacock in "The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and other impossibilities".

• " I had two reasons," answered the sailor Harry Castlemon in "Marcy The Blockade Runner".

• This was of no importance; that he should prove to be a good sailor was all we had to think about. Jules Verne in "An Antarctic Mystery".

• The Third Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor John Payne in "Tales from the Arabic Volume 3".