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What is a windjammer?

What is a windjammer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (US, slang, dated) One who plays a wind instrument, especially a bugler in the army.
  2. (nautical) A large iron-hulled square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts.
  3. (nautical) A member of the crew of a ship of this kind.
  4. (US, slang) A windbag, a loquacious person.
  5. A weatherproof jacket (windcheater).
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He was born 54 years ago in the northern part of Sweden, in his teens he served four years on a British windjammer, then entered a navigation school.
A ship named Lundy Island, 3,095 tons, was captured and sunk on 10 January 1917 by the Seeadler, a windjammer under the German navy, but flying the Norwegian flag.
If the bearing is correct, the wreck of the windjammer should be exactly below us.
Although mild by later standards, the book, which dealt with the chaos wrought by a seductive woman passenger aboard a windjammer full of men, was banned as immoral, and copies were publicly burned.
Every day of Mo's life was an adventure, whether he was playing tennis, or steering a windjammer or analyzing an oil burner in the bowels of a Manhattan skyscraper or eating oysters on the half shell.
Another of the true romances, recommended for a lively sense of humor and a faithful portrayal of life aboard a windjammer.

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