Home › Words › S › sailoringsailoringsailoring means the trade or business of a sailor.EtymologyFrom sailor + -ing.nounThe trade or business of a sailor.e.g.“Stevenson tells us of the ways and works of simple men, their sailorings, their fightings, their treasure-seeking, their love and hatred.” — 1902, John Henry Muirhead, Philosophy and Life: And Other Essays, page 56:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).