Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large sailing ship.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common term for a merchant sailing vessel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.), colloq. A sailing vessel or one of its crew; -- orig. so called contemptuously by sailors on steam vessels.
- noun Slang An army bugler or trumpeter; any performer on a wind instrument.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical a large
iron -hulled square-rigged sailing ship with three or moremasts
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large sailing ship
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Examples
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What ho! the merry "windjammer" with her stowed sails and smell of tar awakened within me old memories, hungry and grimy for the most part.
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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"Every self-respecting Briton knows that a windjammer is a sailing vessel, and the book before us, written by a man who 'went in at the hawse-hole and came out of the cabin-window,' should commend itself to
The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Walter Runciman 1892
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"windjammer" as they pushed away into the twilight sea, and the
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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"windjammer" was about to sail; and racing out to Balboa I was soon set aboard the fore and aft schooner Meteor far out in the bay.
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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So he took his first long voyage, signing on as boy on a windjammer bound around the Horn from the Delaware Breakwater to San Francisco.
CHAPTER V 2010
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Oh, there is material in plenty for the cogitation of any philosopher on a windjammer in mutiny in this Year of our Lord 1913.
CHAPTER XLVIII 2010
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So we put down the sustaining challenge of the poets and took up our machine-stamped plastic cards that entitled us to be “a member of the club” or to “earn points toward a free windjammer.”
Eyes on the Prize 2009
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I will ship myself on a windjammer round the Horn to Liverpool, which will give me more money; and then I will pay my passage from there home.
Chapter 14 2010
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It chanced, some time ago, that I made a voyage of one hundred and forty-eight days in a windjammer around the Horn.
Chapter 39 2010
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The village is big on casual, alfresco dining, small shops with made in Maine crafts, windjammer sailing, concerts in the park and craft shows.
Susan Fogwell: A Summer Getaway to Boothbay Harbor, Maine Susan Fogwell 2011
oroboros commented on the word windjammer
A musician in a circus band.
April 26, 2009