windjammer

IPA: wˈɪndʒʌmɝ

(US, slang, dated) One who plays a wind instrument, especially a bugler in the army.
(nautical) A sailing ship; especially a large, iron-hulled, square-rigged ship with three or more masts.
(nautical) A member of the crew of a ship of this kind.
(US, slang) A windbag, a loquacious person.
A weatherproof jacket (windcheater).

Examples of "windjammer" in Sentences

"windjammer" as they pushed away into the twilight sea, and the
It chanced, some time ago, that I made a voyage of one hundred and forty-eight days in a windjammer around the Horn.
Oh, there is material in plenty for the cogitation of any philosopher on a windjammer in mutiny in this Year of our Lord 1913.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
The village is big on casual, alfresco dining, small shops with made in Maine crafts, windjammer sailing, concerts in the park and craft shows.
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.”
"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