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Sail at the America's Cup
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spinnaker
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Word definitions for spinnaker in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As the sail whipped free of the masthead, he leaped back into the cockpit to loose the spinnaker sheets. ▪ Coaching on trapeze and spinnaker handling completes the package. ▪ He gathered in the tarpaulin as a yachtsman might ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spinnaker \Spin"na*ker\, n. (Naut.) A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"large triangular sail," 1866, either a derivative of spin in the sense of "go rapidly" or a corrupt pronunciation of Sphinx , which was the name of the first yacht known to carry this type of sail.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A spinnaker is a type of sail. Spinnaker can also refer to: The Spinnaker , the official student newspaper of the University of North Florida Spinnaker Tower , a building in Portsmouth, United Kingdom Spinnaker Software , a former software company SpiNNaker ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) A supplemental sail to the main sail, especially a triangular one, used on yachts for running before the wind.
Usage examples of spinnaker.
Near the window the poet had bound Soli to the bole of a spinnaker tree.
There were no more squalls, naught but fine weather, a fair wind, and a whirling log, with sheets slacked off and with spinnaker and mainsail swaying and bellying on either side.
Once beyond the end of the jetty the mast sails extruded their taut triangular expanses, and then, as the wind was from behind, the crew set a big blue kite spinnaker out front.
Ray, the linguist, listened to and memorized words like spinnaker, mast, bow, stern, aft, tiller, halyard winches, masthead fittings, shrouds, lifelines, stanchions, sheet winch, bow pulpit, coamings, transom, clew outhaul, genoa sheets, mainsail, jib, jibstays, jib sheets, cam cleats and boom vangs.
If it ties in with SPINNAKER, well, maybe there's been some creative accounting on the part of the Soviet Army.
The wind was inflating his shirt like a spinnaker and his face was pinched with the pain of the icy gusts.