My father was the designated spanker in our family. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Come in spanker sheet!. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
I continued, dismissing further reflection upon the etymology of "spanker" to a more fitting occasion. From Wordnik.com. [Novel Notes] Reference
Batto! you fella slack spanker tackle quick fella!. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER V] Reference
The party affiliation of the spanker is irrelevant. From Wordnik.com. [In 'Obama Diaries,' self-absorbed musings] Reference
It was haul up the anchor and roll out that spanker. From Wordnik.com. [Old Fid] Reference
Couple of you come aft here and brail up the spanker!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
That 'at wos a spanker, I tell yer; as big as the Doge's. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 27, 1892] Reference
I've got a spanker in my pocket and I know how to use it!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
A gust slammed into the spanker, which men still labored to furl. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwarden]
Friend IMRE's a spanker, you bet, and quite fly to the popular fake. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 27, 1892] Reference
A bridle was rigged from the spanker boom and made fast to a life buoy. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
I don't know how my parents did it, but I do know my mom was a spanker. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel Angel] Reference
He bent to see past the spanker and discovered her kneeling by the mast. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwarden]
Swallow, a spanker she was, chartered by the Company, London to Calcutta. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
Hit me over the 'ed with her boar-spear, a spanker, she did, like a shot. From Wordnik.com. [Punch Among the Planets] Reference
So Lord Steele appeared on a birthday video for the old criminla spanker?. From Wordnik.com. [The Sunday Cyril: "Corrupt" Cyril Smith File Revealed] Reference
Tathagres raised the spanker as Emien slashed the stern line with his sword. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwarden]
LYDEN: And spanker, other than being a member of a British rugby team, is a. From Wordnik.com. [The Asylum Street Spankers, Sounding Off] Reference
The boy dug aft beneath bunched acres of spanker for the knots which lashed the tiller. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwarden]
The longboats were safely overboard and the spanker no longer hid any suspicious activity. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
Mind you he has helped make things worse for spanker Smith by a totally inept defence of him. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Rowen MP: Inaction in Deeplish, In Action at HoP] Reference
He uses people just as shamelessly than the old spanker Cyril and the young spunker Hennegan. From Wordnik.com. [The Monday Cyril: Saintly Knight Throws Toys, Again] Reference
An officer shouted frantic orders; the deckhands abandoned the spanker and slashed the halyards. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwarden]
A dozen topmen scrambled up the ratlines and edged out on the mizzen yard to haul in the spanker. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
And I've still got the spanker in my pocket, just in case I need one. posted by dubjay at 4:05 PM. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
Jackwell let down the end of the spanker sheet, and Ford grabbed it, taking a turn around the thwart. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
Aft, a trysail, set on the spanker boom, helped the tarpaulin in the mizzen to bring her head to the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
Hitler was corporally punished by his dad in a way that even the most pro-spanker would consider it abusive. From Wordnik.com. [No Dog in That Hunt] Reference
Next morning he had the spanker gaff rigged over the stern for use as a temporary rudder while in the heavy pack. From Wordnik.com. [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference
Lieut. Parker took the mainsail off her, and had got the spanker about half brailed up, when the squall struck us. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
The "trysails" are gaff or jib-headed sails sometimes carried on the fore and main, as the spanker is carried on the mizzen. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891] Reference
She then crowded all sail and endeavoured to escape by running, hauled on board our tacks, set spanker and flying-jib in chase. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
Some took advantage of this permission, but for the most part they stood huddled in a group along the spanker boom, ready for a call. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
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