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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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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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