windtalker

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windtalker (plural windtalkers)

  1. (historical, military) A Navajo codetalker during World War II.
    • 2004, “Codes and Decoding”, in James C. Bradford, editor, International Encyclopedia of Military History, Routledge, →ISBN, page 303:
      There are alternative forms of code, like using obscure languages: World War II's Navajo “windtalkers” are a well-known case.
    • 2022, Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater, The Language Game [] , →ISBN:
      Even when they forced a captured Navajo soldier, who was not a Windtalker, to translate intercepted messages, he could not make head or tail of the stream of words because of the code within a code.