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Windjammer   Listen
noun
Windjammer  n.  
1.
(Naut.) A sailing vessel or one of its crew; orig. so called contemptuously by sailors on steam vessels. (Colloq.)
2.
An army bugler or trumpeter; any performer on a wind instrument. (Slang)





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"Windjammer" Quotes from Famous Books



... squeaky-voiced man—I think we hit on Utopian conditions for working the ship. There were no wasters, and our seamen were the pick of the British Navy and Mercantile Marine. Most of the Naval men were intelligent petty officers and were as fully alive as the merchantmen to "Alf's" windjammer knowledge. Cheetham was quite a character, and besides being immensely popular and loyal he was a tough, humorous little soul who had made more Antarctic voyages than any ...
— South with Scott • Edward R. G. R. Evans


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