Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A large sailing ship.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A common term for a merchant sailing vessel.
Wiktionary
- n. nautical a large iron-hulled square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Naut.), colloq. A sailing vessel or one of its crew; -- orig. so called contemptuously by sailors on steam vessels.
- n. Slang An army bugler or trumpeter; any performer on a wind instrument.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a large sailing ship
Examples
“What ho! the merry "windjammer" with her stowed sails and smell of tar awakened within me old memories, hungry and grimy for the most part.”
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers
“Every self-respecting Briton knows that a windjammer is a sailing vessel, and the book before us, written by a man who 'went in at the hawse-hole and came out of the cabin-window,' should commend itself to”
“windjammer" was about to sail; and racing out to Balboa I was soon set aboard the fore and aft schooner Meteor far out in the bay.”
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers
“windjammer" as they pushed away into the twilight sea, and the”
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers
“So we put down the sustaining challenge of the poets and took up our machine-stamped plastic cards that entitled us to be “a member of the club” or to “earn points toward a free windjammer.””
“It chanced, some time ago, that I made a voyage of one hundred and forty-eight days in a windjammer around the Horn.”
“The village is big on casual, alfresco dining, small shops with made in Maine crafts, windjammer sailing, concerts in the park and craft shows.”
The Huffington Post: Susan Fogwell: A Summer Getaway to Boothbay Harbor, Maine
“So he took his first long voyage, signing on as boy on a windjammer bound around the Horn from the Delaware Breakwater to San Francisco.”
“Oh, there is material in plenty for the cogitation of any philosopher on a windjammer in mutiny in this Year of our Lord 1913.”
“I will ship myself on a windjammer round the Horn to Liverpool, which will give me more money; and then I will pay my passage from there home.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘windjammer’.
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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My dick in your
DISCLAIMER: Not for the faint of heart/humerus
There's a backstory, I swear: Arabic has numerous insults beginning with "My dick in your..."
"My dick in your religion"sanctum sanctorum, dick's dick, lack thereof, loved ones, bone marrow, no-no square, hermitage, old linen, favourite pants, English channel, pet ferret, ad hominem attack and 138 more...
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Accordions, et al
Words or phrases associated with the accordion and its family—free reed aerophones. And, please, wisecracks.
bellows, squeeze, aerophone, bayan, concertina, squeeze box, stomach steinway, windjammer, ship's piano, belly organ, pleated piano, waistline wurlitzer and 25 more...
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Jams, Jellies, and Preserves
I've thought of a few of the most common sorts. Additions sought.
traffic, door, toe, fish, wildlife, bean, strawberry, apricot, raspberry, blackberry, boysenberry, grape and 51 more...
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Out to Sea
If I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Me upon my pony on my boat.boat, ship, skiff, barge, canoe, catamaran, yacht, scow, lifeboat, launch, ketch, dory and 303 more...
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Nautical Words
lubber, mizzenmast, circumnavigation, clipper, cordage, galleon, gangplank, gangway, flying bridge, following sea, schooner, amidships and 106 more...
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Compounds That Look Freakish
You know who you are, freakish compounds. Though very useful, some of these words just don't seem right together--or, their meanings are so far from what the two (or more) component words suggest t...
nightjar, bullfinch, grassquit, bananaquit, ovenbird, waxwing, stonechat, wheatear, bushtit, wrentit, starthroat, godwit and 158 more...
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
abecedary, addendum, ampersand, anachronism, avuncular, balderdash, barnacle, befuddle, behemoth, bejeebers, blabbermouth, blatherskite and 465 more...
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and Bristol fashion
being items related to boats, ships, sailing, nautical and naval lore &c.
sloop, frigate, brigantine, brig, grog, schooner, rig, sail, canvas, jib, forestay, cutter and 150 more...
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silly words with sensible meanings
spelunking, lollygag, piebald, windjammer, sideburns, barlafumble, lampoon, battledore, shuttlecock, dragoon, gerrymandering, woggle and 1 more...
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Carnivals and Circuses
Language of the midway and the big top.
annie oakley, blade glommer, light bulb grease, key to the midway, left-handed monke..., calliope, possum belly, painted pony, simp heister, lot lice, hoofstock, hump and 30 more...
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the shipwright
Floating and water vessels of all sorts.
mothership, frigate, xebec, ship-of-the-line, sloop, schooner, cutter, clipper, coracle, skiff, dhow, junk and 40 more...
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Transportation
monoplane, cabriolet, phaeton, argosy, coracle, sampan, Ventiports, wedgehead, sweepspear, fuselage, trafficator, barouche and 70 more...
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over the bounding main
sailing, sailing, the ocean, the seven seas ...
abaft, bilge, boom, isobar, chronometer, berth, spar, yawl, bowsprit, caravel, brigantine, razee and 14 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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GRE Words
equivocal, histrionic, capriciousness, windjammer, protraction, legerdemain, forensic, halcyon, quixotic, captious, fastidious, barefaced and 7 more...
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