windjammer

A noun referring to a large sailing ship, typically a merchant vessel with multiple masts, used historically for long-distance cargo transport.

• 🇫🇷Grand voilier, généralement de commerce, à plusieurs mâts, historiquement utilisé pour transporter des marchandises sur de longues distances.

1. Large sailing ship C1 formal

   A large, fast commercial sailing ship, typically with multiple masts, used in the 19th and early 20th centuries for carrying cargo.

   • The windjammer sailed across the Atlantic with a cargo of tea.
   • Museum visitors can tour a restored windjammer from the 1800s.
   • The crew worked tirelessly to manage the sails of the windjammer.

   🇫🇷Grand voilier de charge

   Synonymes: clippersailing shipsquare-rigger

• windjammers plural form
• windjammers' possessive plural form
• windjammer's possessive singular form