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A hitter who slaps with an open hand
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spanker
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spanker \Spank"er\, n. A small coin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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Spanker can refer to: One who administers a spanking Spanker (sail) , a type of sail on a sailboat Spanker (horse) , a famous 18th-century thoroughbred race horse Spanker, Ohio , an unincorporated community SS-17 Spanker , the NATO reporting name for the ...
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n. a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand; "someone slapped me on the back and I turned to see who the slapper was"; "my father was the designated spanker in our family" [syn: slapper ] a fore-and-aft sail set on the aftermost lower ...
Usage examples of spanker.
Possibly, Susie smiled in recollection, remembering the upturned bottoms, jnst possibly beause the spanker had the unswerving habit of gently palming their rounded rumps for several bewitching moments before the grimmer business in hand commenced.
Nicholas peered and then he could see the ship, black against dark gray, now clearly seen for what she was, a huge thing with high aftercastle, and a rear lateen spanker sail.
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.
As the ship was kept under her topsails and spanker, with two reefs down, no fresh sail was made, and the boatswain did not order the midshipmen to perform any duty.
Under Anya Amaya's guidance the deck crew of four had assembled in the bridge to begin the long, slow process of furling the speed sails: stuns'ls, t'gallants, flying jibs, and spankers.
When the wind was on our port beam, Soterio ordered the jibs furled, the fore course reefed and the spanker raised.
One of the two soldiers whom we had employed to fish the two pieces of the spanker boom, with some quartering that we had, was washed overboard and drowned.
For a moment Roberto grasps the spanker boom (if I have understood correctly), until the sail is rent, shredded by thunderbolts, the boom and the gaff both start emulating the curved course of the stars, and Roberto is flung at the foot of the mizzenmast.
Then the mizzenmast was braced around, jibs and staysails sheeted home, 'tween mast staysails reset, course steadied, and the spanker eased off.
In order to keep rigidly to her station in the Amphion's wake, the Lively was perpetually reefing, dewing up, hauling down jibe, staysails, spanker, starting sheets.