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spinnaker|ˈspɪnəkə(r)|
Also spinniker.
[Said to have been a fanciful formation on spinx, mispronunciation of Sphinx, the name of the first yacht which commonly carried the sail.]
A large three-cornered sail carried by racing-yachts, boomed out at right angles to the vessel's side, opposite to the mainsail, and used in running before the wind. Also carried on other sailing vessels. Also attrib.
1866Yachting Cal. & Rev. Aug. 84 The Sphinx [set] a ‘spinniker’, a kind of large balloon jib extending from the topmast head to the deck, and before the wind a most powerful drawing sail. 1869Hunt's Yachting Mag. June 266 Eva sent up her spinnaker boom in lieu of a topmast. Ibid. Oct. 450 Rosebud's crew especially deserve great credit for their smartness in handling their troublesome customer, i.e. the spinnaker. 1886R. C. Leslie Sea Painter's Log 89 The rig of the sailing-boats looks like a conglomeration of spinnakers. 1912E. K. Chatterton Fore & Aft vii. 233 She [sc. a Thames barge] has all her canvas tanned with the exception of her jib staysail, which her skipper calls a ‘spinnaker’. 1925H. W. Smyth Sea-Wake 179 The spinnaker hand, young and unspoiled in eye or thought, kept looking round him. Ibid. 191 ‘Hooroo,’ began the spinnaker man, and no one interrupted him now; he had done the best day's spinnaker work of his life. 1927G. Bradford Gloss. Sea Terms 168/1 Large jibs on English coast craft are sometimes called spinnakers. 1949Sun (Baltimore) 9 Aug. 8/5 The big China-built cutter..carried a huge sky-blue Nylon spinnaker across the finish line. 1959Yachting World Annual 9/2 Columbia's combination of a small, flat spinnaker and small short⁓luffed spinnaker staysail seemed to be pulling more effectively. 1963G. Millar Oyster River 60 We put the nine-foot dinghy in the river (easily done with a short boom fitted into a spinnaker cup set low on the aft side of the mainmast). 1967J. Howard-Williams Sails xii. 164 The spinnaker-staysail..sets under the spinnaker on a reach, in order to fill a slight gap forward. 1972Sail May 100 A typical low aspect ratio spinnaker staysail.
fig.1957R. Campbell Coll. Poems II. 253 The spring with rosy spinnaker outfanned Comes curling silver fleeces through the land. |