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A windjammer is a commercial sailing ship with multiple masts that may be either square rigged or fore-and-aft rigged or a combination of the two. The informal term arose during the transition from the Age of Sail to the Age of Steam.

Etymology[edit]

A New England windjammer—the Luther Little, a four-masted schooner—just after its construction in 1917

The word 'windjammer' has a variety of associations, both nautical and not. In the late 19th century the term was pejorative, as used by sailors aboard steamships.[1]

  • In 1892, Rudder Magazine said in a story, 'The deck hands on the liners contemptuously refer to [sailing vessels] as ‘wind-jammers’.'[1]
  • In 1917, the American Dialect Society recorded residents of the U.S. state of Maine referring to fore-and-aft sailing vessels as 'windjammers' in a list of regional word usages.[2]
  • The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea calls windjammer 'a non-nautical name by which square-rigged sailing ships are sometimes known'.[3]
  • The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military calls windjammer 'a merchant sailing ship'.[4]
  • The following languages have adopted 'windjammer' as a loanword from English in reference to sailing ships:
  1. Czech: windjammer[5]
  2. German: Windjammer[6][7]
  3. Japanese: ウィンドジャマー[8]
  4. Polish: windjammer[9]
  5. Russian: винджаммер[10]
  6. Serbo-Croatian: виндјамер/vindjamer[11]
  7. Ukrainian: вінджамер
  • Green's Dictionary of Slang has a variety of non-nautical definitions for the term.[12]

Examples[edit]

Full-rigged ship
Barque
Barquentine
Schooner
Showing three-masted examples, progressing from square sails on each to all fore-and-aft sails on each.

Puzzle link. Any of the following ships may be called a 'windjammer':

  • Barque[4]
  • Barquentine[4]
  • Brig[3][4]
  • Brigantine[4]
  • Clipper ship[4][13]
  • Full-rigged ship[3][4]
  • Iron-hulled sailing ship[4][14][15]
  • Sail-powered cruise ship[16][17]
  • Schooner[4][2]

In literature[edit]

Windjammers have figured prominently in both historical and fictional literature. Some examples include:

  • Allen, Oliver E.; Books, Time-Life (1978). The Windjammers. Time-Life Books. ISBN9780705406253. Allen, Oliver E. 1978. The Windjammers. Amsterdam: Time-Life Books.
  • Lubbock, Basil (1953). The Last of the Windjammers. Brown, Son & Ferguson.
  • Noppen, Ryan K. (2015). German Commerce Raiders 1914–18. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN9781472809513.
  • Richardson, V. A. (2006). The House of Windjammer. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN9781582349848.
  • Runciman, Walter Sr. (1902). Windjammers and Sea Tramps. London: At the Unicorn.
  • Simpson, Paul W. (2017). Windjammer. Lulu Press, Inc. ISBN9780244305727.
  • Thomas, Lowell (2013). The Sea Devil - The Story Of Count Felix Von Luckner, The German War Raider. Read Books Ltd. ISBN9781446548196.

References[edit]

  1. ^ ab'wind, n.1', OED Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved 2019-06-25
  2. ^ abChase, George D. (1917). 'Lists from Maine'. Dialect Notes. 1. IV. American Dialect Society.
  3. ^ abcDear, I. C. B. DearI C. B.; Kemp, Peter KempPeter (2007-01-01), Kemp, Peter; Dear, I. C. B. (eds.), 'Windjammer', The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780199205684.001.0001, ISBN9780199205684, retrieved 2019-06-24
  4. ^ abcdefghi'Windjammer', The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military, Oxford University Press, 2001, doi:10.1093/acref/9780199891580.001.0001, ISBN9780199891580, retrieved 2019-06-24
  5. ^'windjammer - Czech translation - bab.la English-Czech dictionary'. en.bab.la. Retrieved 2019-06-28.
  6. ^Hueber; Bönzli, Werner (2009). Mit Deutsch durchs Jahr: Sprachkalender Deutsch (in German). Hueber Verlag. ISBN9783190079209.
  7. ^Penzkofer, Markus (2017-09-27). Thematisches Wörterbuch Deutsch-Englisch (2): Aufbauwortschatz (in German). BoD – Books on Demand. ISBN9783744822619.
  8. ^Nguyen, Nam H. (2018-02-03). Essential 120000 English-Japanese Words Dictionary (in Japanese). Nam H Nguyen.
  9. ^Milewski, Szymon; Zadrożna, T. (1965). Maritime dictionary Polish-English. Wydawn. Naukowo-Techniczne.
  10. ^'Винджаммер - translation - Russian-English Dictionary'. Glosbe. Retrieved 2019-06-27.
  11. ^'Виндјамер - translation - Serbian-English Dictionary'. Glosbe. Retrieved 2019-06-27.
  12. ^Green, Jonathon (2011), 'Windjammer', Green's Dictionary of Slang, Chambers Harrap Publishers, doi:10.1093/acref/9780199829941.001.0001, ISBN9780199829941, retrieved 2019-06-24
  13. ^Simpson, Paul W. (2017-05-11). Windjammer. Lulu Press, Inc. ISBN9780244305727.
  14. ^Historian), Tom Bennett (Shipwreck (2016-11-24). Bells from Shipwrecks -after 1830: Victorian and Modern Ship's Bells. TOM Bennett.
  15. ^Marsden, Ben (2015-07-28). Uncommon Contexts: Encounters Between Science and Literature, 1800–1914. Routledge. ISBN9781317320357.
  16. ^Williams, Deborah (September 1999). 'Windjammin' in Maine'. Cruise Travel. Cruise Travel.
  17. ^Kerr, Jim (September 1994). 'Fantome—Setting sail for romance with Windjammer Barefoot Cruises'. Cruise Travel. Cruise Travel.
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. In 1917, the recorded residents of the U.S.

State of referring to fore-and-aft sailing vessels as 'windjammers' in a list of regional word usages. The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea calls windjammer 'a non-nautical name by which square-rigged sailing ships are sometimes known'. The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S.

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Time-Life Books. Allen, Oliver E. The Windjammers. Amsterdam: Time-Life Books.

Lubbock, Basil (1953). Brown, Son & Ferguson. Noppen, Ryan K. Bloomsbury Publishing. Richardson, V.

Bloomsbury Publishing USA. Runciman, Walter Sr. London: At the Unicorn. Simpson, Paul W.

Lulu Press, Inc. Thomas, Lowell (2013). Read Books Ltd.References.

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