windjammer
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)
- a large sailing shipType of sailing vessel, sailing ship
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Wind′jam′mer noun
1. Nautical A sailing vessel or one of its crew; — orig. so called contemptuously by sailors on steam vessels. colloquial
2. An army bugler or trumpeter; any performer on a wind instrument. slang
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: 1913 supplement