There now, if you don't clap a stopper on that ere spanker-boom, I'll have to lash it down.— Jarwin and Cuffy
"But there was a rope hanging down from the spanker-boom."— Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea
Shure that's the place where I run me head slap up agin the spanker-boom four days ago.— The Red Eric
I heard the rattling of the boarding-pikes, too, as they were cut adrift from the spanker-boom, and fell upon the deck.— Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale
But our spanker-boom geared the other ship, you know, in manoeuvring to get headway. "— Israel Potter
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