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windjammer definition

☆ wind·jam·mer (wind′jam′ər)

noun

  1. a sailing ship, esp. a large one: so called originally in contempt by seamen on early steamships
  2. a crew member of such a ship

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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