windjammer
Americannoun
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(formerly) a merchant ship propelled by sails.
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any large sailing ship.
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a member of its crew.
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Older Slang. a long-winded person; a great talker.
noun
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a large merchant sailing ship
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another name for windcheater
Etymology
Origin of windjammer
Example Sentences
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From the bridge of the three-masted windjammer, the Sea Cloud Spirit, the captain called out the words we’d all been waiting for.
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2024
The Grace Bailey is part of the state’s so-called windjammer fleet, a collection of sailing vessels that take people on excursions up and down the coast.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2023
The Oceanics School offered a journey of a lifetime that spring of 1972 on the Sea Cloud, a historic windjammer designed by heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and hailed as the greatest sailing yacht ever built.
From Salon • Oct. 16, 2021
No one’s taking themselves too seriously here, so if your idea of a sail involves starched white slacks and a sweater knotted just-so around your shoulders, then a windjammer cruise is probably not for you.
From Washington Post
At the head of Miller Bay, beyond the mud flats, lived Captain Jonathan Soderland, who’d plied his decrepit windjammer, the C. S. Murphy, to the Arctic each year on trading expeditions.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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