Windjammer vs Clipper - What's the difference?
windjammer | clipper |
(US, slang, dated) a bugler
(nautical) a large iron-hulled square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts
(US, slang) a windbag, a loquacious person
a weatherproof jacket (windcheater)
Anything that clips.
* 2010 , James Morrow, The Last Witchfinder
(chiefly, in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
Something that moves swiftly; especially:
# (nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
# (informal) An Alberta clipper.
(electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
As nouns the difference between windjammer and clipper
is that windjammer is (us|slang|dated) a bugler while clipper is anything that clips.windjammer
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(wikipedia windjammer) (en noun)clipper
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(wikipedia clipper) (en noun)- Surtouts billowing in an unseasonably fierce wind, the ursine Chelmsford magistrate and his equally bulky constable herded their bound prisoners – three murderers, three thieves, a coin clipper , two convicted witches – across the Common