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windjammer
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Windjammer is a 1930 British film directed by John Orton and based on the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J. Villiers
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, ...
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n. a large sailing ship
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.