"windjam" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From wind + jam. Possibly a back-formation from windjammer.",
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          "ref": "1934 July, A.C. Strong, “A Line Squall off Cape Hatteras”, in Yachting, volume LVI, page 90, column 2:",
          "text": "By that time Virginia Beach was abeam and Cape Henry Lighthouse appeared dimly over the port bow. The breeze was no fresher, so we shook out the reefs in the mainsail, and windjammed up the coast, N½W with started sheets. Good old crock!",
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          "ref": "2016, Eugene Lambert, The Sign of One, London: Electric Monkey, →ISBN, page 112:",
          "text": "I have to close my eyes. Either that or puke my guts into my lap. ¶ 'You can look now,' sneers Sky, a long time later. ¶ It's okay for her, she's used to windjamming.",
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        "To sail."
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        "(now rare) To sail."
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          "ref": "2005, Forbes, Mary J, Everything She's Ever Wanted, New York, N.Y.: Silhouette Books, →ISBN, page 209:",
          "text": "He set a hand on the small of her back, steered her to the rear of the salon. \"This'll take five minutes.\" You got time to windjam with Alice, you got time for me.",
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        "To speak in a long-winded manner; to chatter, bloviate."
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        "(US, slang) To speak in a long-winded manner; to chatter, bloviate."
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    {
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      "word": "wind-jam"
    }
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  "word": "windjam"
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          "text": "By that time Virginia Beach was abeam and Cape Henry Lighthouse appeared dimly over the port bow. The breeze was no fresher, so we shook out the reefs in the mainsail, and windjammed up the coast, N½W with started sheets. Good old crock!",
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        "(now rare) To sail."
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