How To Use Spanker In A Sentence
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In the afternoon set the fore and main topgallant sails. 1pm set the mizzen topgallant sail and spanker.
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It has two masts, square rigged on both with a spanker sail on the aftermost mast.
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When the crossjack was replaced by a gaff, the larger vessels started the square mainsail, and became "brigs," while the smaller kept the spanker as their mainsail, and became "brigantines," so that a genuine old brigantine is a brig without a square mainsail.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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We passed a ship, two schooners, and a four-masted barkentine under the smallest of canvas, and at eleven o'clock, running up the spanker and jib, we hove her to, and in another hour we were beating back again against the aftersea under full sail to regain the sealing ground away to the westward.
Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
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The "trysails" are gaff or jib-headed sails sometimes carried on the fore and main, as the spanker is carried on the mizzen.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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Jaric had brailed the mainsail neatly to the yardarm, but jib and spanker lay heaped in the bow, a negligence he never would have tolerated by choice.
Shadowfane
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Then there were two or three buckish looking young fellows, among the rest; who were all the time playing at cards on the poop, under the lee of the spanker; or smoking cigars on the taffrail; or sat quizzing the emigrant women with opera-glasses, leveled through the windows of the upper cabin.
Redburn. His First Voyage
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A second moment they devoted to the wreckage of the same on deck -- the mizzen-topmast, thrust through the spanker and supported vertically by the stout canvas, thrashing back and forth with each thrash of the sail, the main - topmast squarely across the ruined companionway to the steerage.
CHAPTER XV
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On the alt.country binge: I bought two from the Asylum Street Spankers, who remind me of Squirrel Nut Zippers, but bawdier, and Joe Henry's Trampoline the oher day from iTunes look out for those iTunes benders!
WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: August 2005 Archives
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The band derived its name from an Austin street where they would often busk that was nicknamed Asylum Street, now named Guadalupe Street, and the term "spanker" which is an old musician's term for "one who plays his instrument vigorously and proficiently".
The Big Apple
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The students got in touch with The Hook, the spanker was arrested, and he’s being sent back to the U.S. to serve his 3.5 year sentence for taking indecent liberties with minors.
2004 April archive at cvillenews.com
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Not because I think that spanking and spankers are in all circumstances evil and terrible – my own parents were spankers – but because I think that although spanking is not always or necessarily abusive, it tilts too obviously and too dangerously in that direction and anything that encourages the practice just might, you know, grease the slope.
A Spanking A Day Keeps Failure Away? | Her Bad Mother
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We passed a ship, two schooners, and a four-masted barkentine under the smallest of canvas, and at eleven o'clock, running up the spanker and jib, we hove her to, and in another hour we were beating back again against the aftersea under full sail to regain the sealing ground away to the westward.
Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
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Borckman explained that he had a touch of fever, and Van Horn deferred stating his doubts until a few minutes later, squatting in the shade of the spanker with Jerry in his arms, he told Jerry all about it.
CHAPTER IV
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The second part an utterly embarrassing piece of solidarity with the solider-than-life, three short planks of a self-serving thickie, old spanker and asbestos apologiser.
The Monday Cyril: Fawning Post Comes Home to Roost?
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Yet if you look HERE you will find that on my return from the home of Gracie Fields, Lisa Stansfield, The Rochdale Pioneers, and the bare botty spanker Cyril "Asbestos is Good For You" Smith, I did wonder:
Guido Fawkes: Spreading Mandy-Oleg Tapes Rumour
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Reporter, Claire Moriarty, finds herself all at sea with words such as gallant, buntlines and spanker.
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They had found the "spanker" of the _Pandora_ floating about, with its boom and all the cordage attached.
The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
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I was the last to go below, doing so just as the watch on deck was furling the spanker.
Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
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my father was the designated spanker in our family
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Elsinore, naked-sparred, under only lower-topsails, with spanker and crojack furled, was prepared for anything.
CHAPTER XXVIII
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Captain Miles was just thinking of setting the spanker and bending a new fore-topsail, when, as if it had been all at once shut off from its source, the strong north-western wind in a moment ceased to blow.
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea
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My force have got a brand spanker Audi S4 for use by the burglary task force, pro-active units and volume crime squads.
Essex Boys (Loose Cars and Fast Women) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Her forestaysail and mizzen spanker were set as though an effort had been made to hold her head up into the wind, but the sheets had parted, and the sails were tearing to ribbons in the half gale of wind.
Tarzan of the Apes
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Some of you brail up the spanker here and man the jib downhaul.
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea
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He doesn't rate a lot of the nu-metal plank-spankers.
Times, Sunday Times
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I continued, dismissing further reflection upon the etymology of "spanker" to a more fitting occasion.
Novel Notes
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A special stuns'l was fitted to the spanker: it was called the ‘ringtail.’
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The jibs and staysails are triangular, the spanker a quadrangular {108} fore-and-after.
All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
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Just wax up and enjoy the gymnosophical gyrations of that slammin' spanker.'
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