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单词 spinnaker
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spinnaker /spinˈə-kər/ (nautical)

noun

A three-cornered lightweight sail, normally set forward of a yacht's mast to increase sail area when running before the wind or on a broad reach, and which on racing yachts has a great deal of flow in the belly of the canvas and is often brightly coloured

ORIGIN: Perh from spin and moniker, or from spinxer a word coined when it was first introduced on the yacht Sphinx in the 1870s
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