windtalker

English

Alternative forms

• Windtalker

Noun

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.