spinnaker

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Then she made him uncomfortable by hitting him several times in different parts of the body with a long spar which she called the spinnaker boom The setting of this sail struck Frank as an immensely complicated business.

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  1. noun A large triangular sail set on a spar that swings out opposite the mainsail, used on yachts when running before the wind.

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  • There was that spinnaker, for instance ... I couldn't judge the whole nicety of it, of course. —  Pilotage
  • His chute was billowing behind him like a spinnaker sail, weaving and jibbing in the gale. —  Analog December, 1974
  • Boats were grouped together in spinnaker and non-spinnaker classes, but trophies were awarded to top boats in vintage and modern categories (see below for a list of class winners). —  Sail-World.com USA Latest News
  • If that sail was a Golly, it is normally set with a spinnaker, the tack of the golly is tacked down inside the sheet of the spin. and the two are 'Married' together as its called. —  Sail-World.com USA Latest News
  • Despite the loss and final destruction of their remaining spinnaker, Herrmann and Oehme cross the finish line on 15th January at 14: 01 GMT on Beluga Racer, followed just three and one half hours later by Cubillos and Muñoz with Desafio Cabo de Hornos at 17: 32 GMT. —  Sail-World.com USA Latest News
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  1. Perhaps ultimately from Sphinx, name of the first yacht to use such a sail, or spin, to move rapidly (variant of Scots spene, to run before the wind; see spindrift).

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  1. Said to be from spin, in sense of ‘go rapidly.’
 

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/ˈspɪnəkər/
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