Crossword clues for windjammer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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]
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 of a ship of this kind. 4 (context US slang English) A windbag, a loquacious person. 5 A weatherproof jacket (windcheater).
WordNet
n. a large sailing ship
Wikipedia
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 masts and square sails, giving them a characteristic profile.
A common incorrect explanation of the origin of the term consists of an introduction into English of a folk etymology of the term common in Dutch. As Dutch jammeren is similar to "jam" and means "to wail" and since speakers of these languages were not aware that the term "windjammer" originally came from English, the folk etymology claims "windjammer" refers to the typical sound of strong winds blowing through the rigging. In fact, the word comes from the English word "to jam" because the sails are so large that they seem to "jam" the wind.
The windjammers were cargo ships designed for long voyages. They usually carried bulk cargo, such as lumber, guano, grain or ore from one continent to another, usually following the prevailing winds and circumnavigating the globe during their voyages. Several of these ships are still in existence, variously operating as school ships, museum ships, restaurant ships, and cruise ships.
Windjammer is a 1958 documentary film that recorded a voyage of the Norwegian sail training ship Christian Radich. Windjammer was produced by Louis de Rochemont and directed by Louis de Rochemont III. It was the only film to be shot in the widescreen Cinemiracle process, which came with a seven-track stereophonic soundtrack.
Windjammer is an album recorded in 1976 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. It was released on the Columbia label and features performances by Hubbard, Jon Faddis, Michael Brecker, Bob James, George Cables Steve Khan and Eric Gale.
Windjammer may refer to:
Sailing:
- Windjammer, a type of sailing ship
- Windjammer Barefoot Cruises, a leisure cruise line based in Miami, Florida
Arts:
- Windjammer (1958 film), a 1958 film
- Windjammer (1937 film), a film directed by Ewing Scott
- Windjammer (album), an album recorded in 1976 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard
- Windjammers (video game), an arcade game
Other:
- a division of Valiant Comics created in 1995
- a member of the Halifax Windjammers, a World Basketball League franchise
- a member of the Maine Windjammers, a semi-pro basketball team of Portland, Maine
- Windjammer Communications, a cable company
- Windjammer Surf Racers, a roller coaster at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California
- Yamaha Windjammer, discontinued EWI
- an American term for the button accordion
- a brand of motorcycle fairing produced by the Vetter Fairing Company in the 1970s
- wind jammer, a protective outer garment designed to be impervious to the wind, a windcheater
Windjammer is a 1937 American film directed by Ewing Scott.
Windjammer is a 1930 British film directed by John Orton and based on the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J. Villiers
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.