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windjammer
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A windjammer is a type of large sailing ship , with an iron , or for the most part, steel hull , built to carry cargo in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Windjammers were the grandest of merchant sailing ships, with between three and five large ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As a boy I had read a lot of sea stories and indulged in fancies of rounding the Horn in a windjammer . ▪ He had sailed before the mast in a windjammer , and then become a stoker. ▪ Lincoln imps, windjammer bells, lighthouses, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US slang dated English) One who plays a wind instrument, especially a bugler in the army. 2 (context nautical English) A large iron-hulled square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts. 3 (context nautical English) A member of the crew ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Windjammer \Wind"jam`mer\, n. (Naut.) A sailing vessel or one of its crew; -- orig. so called contemptuously by sailors on steam vessels. An army bugler or trumpeter; any performer on a wind instrument. [Slang]
Usage examples of windjammer.
Beck and his windjammers polished their instruments and put on their band dress, and Banat wore his bemedaled Rebel uniform.
That would give Glassman over fifty peteys and four windjammers to assist his invasion.
No musician strapped into rigid notes, bars, and rests can imitate the sound and beat of windjammers trained to play to the kootch of a dancing horse or elephant, making it look as though the animal was dancing to the music rather than the other way around.
The windjammers were huge, more than ten times the size of the PT boats, and even at three to four, the odds were heavily in their favor.
All the troupers had heard it played on balalaikas in restaurants and hotel dining rooms, and Boom-Boom Beck was scoring a version for his windjammers to play.
The windjammers fetched their instruments and Bandmaster Boom-Boom conducted them in a rather raucous rendition of the "Thunder and Lightning" polka.
Nobody could see, over the projecting edge of the stand, what instrument that windjammer might be playing, and Bandmaster Beck only smiled smugly down at them.
The calliope's professor stoked its firebox, Goesle fixed the new filigree crests on all the wagons, Beck's windjammers got out their instruments and Hannibal put the sheepskin boots on the camel and elephants.
Barques, yawls, packet boats, gigarettes, freighters, cabin cruisers, sampans, windjammers and luxury liners.