Windjammer

Etymology

• In 1892, Rudder Magazine said in a story, "The deck hands on the liners contemptuously refer to as ‘wind-jammers’."
• 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.
• 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. Military calls windjammer "a merchant sailing ship".
• The following languages have adopted "windjammer" as a loanword from English in reference to sailing ships:

1. Czech: :cs:Windjammer|windjammer
2. German: :de:Windjammer|Windjammer
3. Japanese: :ja:ウィンドジャマー|ウィンドジャマー
4. Polish: :pl:Windjammer|windjammer
5. Russian: :ru:Винджаммер|винджаммер
6. Serbo-Croatian: :sr:Виндјамер|виндјамер/vindjamer
7. Ukrainian: :uk:Вінджамер|вінджамер

• Green's Dictionary of Slang has a variety of non-nautical definitions for the term.

  Examples

• Barque
• Barquentine
• Brig
• Brigantine
• Clipper ship
• Full-rigged ship
• Iron-hulled sailing ship
• Sail-powered cruise ship
• Schooner

  In literature