Windjammer
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Awindjammeris a commercialsailing shipwith multiple masts that may besquare rigged,orfore-and-aft rigged,or a combination of the two. The informal term "windjammer" arose during the transition from theAge of Sailto theAge of Steamduring the 19th century. TheOxford English Dictionaryrecords the word "windjamming" from 1886 and "windjammer" with reference to a ship from 1892.[1]The term has evolved to include such a vessel, carrying passengers on overnight cruises in the Caribbean, the U.S. state ofMaineand elsewhere.[2][3]
Etymology
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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.[4]
- In 1892,Rudder Magazinesaid in a story, "The deck hands on the liners contemptuously refer to [sailing vessels] as 'wind-jammers'."[4]
- In 1917, theAmerican Dialect Societyrecorded residents of the U.S. state of Maine referring to fore-and-aft sailing vessels as "windjammers" in a list of regional word usages.[5]
- The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Seacallswindjammer"a non-nautical name by which square-rigged sailing ships are sometimes known".[6]
- The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Militarycallswindjammer"a merchant sailing ship".[7]
- The following languages have adopted "windjammer" as aloanwordfrom English in reference to sailing ships:
- Green's Dictionary of Slanghas a variety of non-nautical definitions for the term.[16]
Examples
[edit]Windjammers
Full-rigged ship
Barque
Barquentine
Schooner
Showing three-masted examples, progressing from square sails on each to all fore-and-aft sails on each.
Any of the following ships may be called a "windjammer":
- Barque[7]
- Barquentine[7]
- Brig[6][7]
- Brigantine[7]
- Clipper ship[7][17]
- Full-rigged ship[6][7]
- Iron-hulled sailing ship[7][18][19]
- Sail-poweredcruise ship[20][21]
- Schooner[7][5]
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
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Look upwindjammerin Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- ^ "windjammer".Oxford English Dictionary(Online ed.).Oxford University Press.(Subscription orparticipating institution membershiprequired.)
- ^Laird, Scott (2022-04-12)."A Windjammer Cruise on Penobscot Bay Is the Best Way to Experience Maine's Coast".Condé Nast Traveler.Retrieved2022-07-13.
- ^Crowell, Ed (2003).Barefoot pirate: the tall ships and tales of Windjammer.Robert W. Schachner. [New York]: Orion Press.ISBN0-7570-0128-9.OCLC52985865.
- ^ab"wind, n.1",OED Online,Oxford University Press,retrieved2019-06-25
- ^abChase, George D. (1917)."Lists from Maine".Dialect Notes.1. Vol. IV. American Dialect Society.
- ^abcDear, I. C. B. DearI C. B.; Kemp, Peter (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,retrieved2019-06-24
- ^abcdefghi"Windjammer",The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military,Oxford University Press, 2001,doi:10.1093/acref/9780199891580.001.0001,ISBN9780199891580,retrieved2019-06-24
- ^"windjammer - Czech translation - bab.la English-Czech dictionary".en.bab.la.Retrieved2019-06-28.
- ^Van Veen, Pieter A. F.; Van der Sijs, Nicoline (1997). "Windjammer".Etymologisch woordenboek: de herkomst van onze woorden.Utrecht Antwerpen: Van Dale Lexicografie.
- ^Hueber; Bönzli, Werner (2009).Mit Deutsch durchs Jahr: Sprachkalender Deutsch(in German). Hueber Verlag.ISBN9783190079209.
- ^Penzkofer, Markus (2017-09-27).Thematisches Wörterbuch Deutsch-Englisch (2): Aufbauwortschatz(in German). BoD – Books on Demand.ISBN9783744822619.
- ^Nguyen, Nam H. (2018-02-03).Essential 120000 English-Japanese Words Dictionary(in Japanese). Nam H Nguyen.
- ^Milewski, Szymon; Zadrożna, T. (1965).Maritime dictionary Polish-English.Wydawn. Naukowo-Techniczne.
- ^"Винджаммер - translation - Russian-English Dictionary".Glosbe.Retrieved2019-06-27.
- ^"Виндјамер - translation - Serbian-English Dictionary".Glosbe.Retrieved2019-06-27.
- ^Green, Jonathon (2011),"Windjammer",Green's Dictionary of Slang,Chambers Harrap Publishers,doi:10.1093/acref/9780199829941.001.0001,ISBN9780199829941,retrieved2019-06-24
- ^Simpson, Paul W. (2017-05-11).Windjammer.Lulu Press, Inc.ISBN9780244305727.
- ^Historian), Tom Bennett (Shipwreck (2016-11-24).Bells from Shipwrecks -after 1830: Victorian and Modern Ship's Bells.TOM Bennett.
- ^Marsden, Ben (2015-07-28).Uncommon Contexts: Encounters Between Science and Literature, 1800–1914.Routledge.ISBN9781317320357.
- ^Williams, Deborah (September 1999)."Windjammin' in Maine".Cruise Travel.Cruise Travel.
- ^Kerr, Jim (September 1994)."Fantome—Setting sail for romance with Windjammer Barefoot Cruises".Cruise Travel.Cruise Travel.