wind-jammer

Surgeons might prolong his life, but here in a wind-jammer it is shortened very rapidly.

CHAPTER XXXI 2010

"We've just brought a Norwegian wind-jammer in from the South of Iceland ...."

The Long Trick 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926

"What about the skipper of the wind-jammer?" interrupted the other.

The Long Trick 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926

Broke to the wide an 'aboard of a old wind-jammer wot was a coffin-ship -- a coffin-ship she was; an' 'er old man was the devil's father-in-law.

The Golden Scorpion Sax Rohmer 1921

At the docks of both mills vessels were loading, their tall spars cutting the skyline above and beyond the smokestacks; far down the Bay a steam schooner, loaded until her main-deck was almost flush with the water, was putting out to sea, and Shirley heard the faint echo of her siren as she whistled her intention to pass to starboard of a wind-jammer inward bound in tow of a Cardigan tug.

The Valley of the Giants 1918

At the mill-dock a big steam schooner and a wind-jammer lay; in the lee of the piles of lumber, sailors and long-shoremen, tallymen and timekeeper lounged, enjoying the brief period of the noon hour still theirs before the driving mates of the lumber-vessels should turn them to on the job once more.

The Valley of the Giants 1918

Surgeons might prolong his life, but here in a wind-jammer it is shortened very rapidly.

Chapter 31 1914

Old Maskell, who had seen wind-jammer days and ways and come very close, I suspected, to piracy, always prayed at least once.

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

Next day when the schooner approached a submarine the undersea boat let drive with a torpedo, and the joyous days of that particular wind-jammer were at an end.

Our Navy in the War Lawrence Perry 1914

No sooner had the schooner crew cleared the wind-jammer than the deck-load of lumber resolved itself into a series of doors, and out of each door protruded a gun.

Our Navy in the War Lawrence Perry 1914