Definition of windjammer
:a sailing ship;
also
:one of its crew
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Examples of windjammer in a Sentence
with no set course to follow, a windjammer sails wherever the wind and the captain's whim takes it
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Brie Beaumont, crew member of a windjammer and a Minneapolis police officer, investigates the apparent suicide of a man who came aboard with six friends, all of whom had reason to kill the businessman who seemed to know all their secrets.
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But the Avanti was a fast and durable vessel known as a windjammer, with what was in 1875 a state-of-the-art iron hull.
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First Known Use of windjammer
1880
windjammer Synonyms
Synonyms
bark, dinghy, sailboatRelated Words
bugeye, brigantine, caïque, caravel, catamaran, catboat, cat rig, clipper, corvette, cutter, frigate, galleon, galley, junk, keelboat, ketch, knockabout, lugger, outrigger, pinnace, piragua, sailer, schooner, shallop, sharpie (or sharpy), ship, sloop, square-rigger, xebec, yacht, yawl; bottom, craft, vesselWINDJAMMER Defined for English Language Learners
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