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Large gaff sail
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spencer
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Wikipedia
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Spencer (also Spence , Spender , Spens , and Spenser ) is a surname . The origin can be traced directly to Robert d'Abbetot , who is listed as Robert le Dispenser, a tenant-in-chief of several counties, in the Domesday Book of 1086. Robert was possibly ...
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Population (2000): 541 Housing Units (2000): 272 Land area (2000): 0.524644 sq. miles (1.358822 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.524644 sq. miles (1.358822 sq. km) FIPS code: 46275 Located within: Nebraska ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trysail \Try"sail\, n. (Naut.) A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer . --Totten.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
surname attested from late 13c. (earlier le Despenser , c.1200), literally "one who dispenses or has charge of provisions in a household." Middle English spence meant "larder, pantry," and is short for Old French despense (French dépense ) "expense," from ...
Usage examples of spencer.
Spencer Howell, fresh from the shower and wearing a pink negligee, stood in the door of her bathroom and brushed her hair, waiting for Lieutenant Colonel Ed Banning to notice her.
While the others lay under the trees, taking a postprandial snooze, Spencer Maynard persuaded Comfort to accompany him a bit farther down the arroyo to a secluded spot not far from the stream that flowed by its mouth.
After a futile attempt to convince Governor Pinto to come to their aid, they went to the Pousada de Macao where Spencer confronted the innkeeper.
Captain Henry Quaire refused to comment on the shooting, saying the case is under investigation, but he did confirm that Miss Detweiler had been found lying on the floor of the roof of the garage by Miss Amanda Chase Spencer, of Scarsdale, N.
Herbert Spencer has shown that when a pure-bred animal breeds with an animal of a mixed breed, the offspring resembles much more closely the parent of pure blood, and this may explain why the circumstance recorded by Balfour has been so seldom noted.
Spencer, having secured to his own Protestant self a reversionary portion of the public money amounting to four times that sum.
Herbert Spencer mentions the Fuegians, Veddahs, Andamanese, Dyaks, Todas, Gonds, Santals, Bodos, and Dhimals, Mishmis, Kamchadales, and Snake Indians, as among people who form societies to practice simple mutilations in slight forms.
Possibly a travelling costume of purple satin trimmed with a quantity of sarsenet, and worn under a spencer, and a voluminous cloak of drab merino cloth, might have contributed to her discomfort.
Spencer managed to discover that Stoven planned a trip to his estate at the end of the week.
Spencer, the fusion of two such hitherto unassociated ideas as race and experience was a miracle beyond our strength.
Thus we will patent the Cadbury clown fish, the British Petroleum stag coral, the Marks and Spencer moray eel, the Royal Bank of Scotland angelfish, and gliding silently overhead, the British Airways manta ray.
The worthy Martinelli, thinking to oblige me, told me that he had arranged with Lord Spencer the day on which I was to be introduced to the club, but I answered that my fancy for going there was over.
Selene pulled the damp cloth of her white spencer, a sort of antebellum blouse, away from her neck and tried to blow inside the steamy confines of her garment, to no avail.
At times, discussing biomolecular science with Spencer was like talking with a five-year-old.
Winchesters, Gallaghers, Springfields, Spencers, Burnsides and Sharps.