Definition of windjammer
: a sailing ship;
also
: one of its crew
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with no set course to follow, a windjammer sails wherever the wind and the captain's whim takes it
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The company also sails a slightly larger windjammer, the 94-passenger Sea Cloud II.
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Go to sea in search of whales and offshore adventure on a Maine windjammer sailing and whale-watching cruise.
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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
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