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Spinnaker

noun

A large and usually triangular headsail; carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind.

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"Spinnaker" Quotes from Famous Books

... us as if we were standing still. One by one all those on board turned and waved their hands at me,—all except Jimmy Toppan, who was having too good a time with the sails to care for any person on earth. Presently they took in the spinnaker and ...

— The Voyage of the Hoppergrass • Edmund Lester Pearson

... that has glowed out its life in the state-room of some ocean liner, or a broom of Japanese make, a coal-basket, a "fender," a tiger nautilus shell, an oar or a rudder, a tiller, a bottle cast away fat out from land to determine the strength and direction of ocean currents, the spinnaker boom of a yacht, the jib-boom of a staunch cutter. Once there was a goodly hammer cemented by the head fast upright on a flat rock, and again the stand of a grindstone, and a trestle, high and elaborately stayed. Cases, invariably and disappointingly empty, ...

— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield

Words linked to "Spinnaker" : headsail