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▪ I. spanker1|ˈspæŋkə(r)|
[Related to spanking ppl. a. or (in later use) f. spank v.2]
†1. slang. A gold coin; usually in pl., coin, money. Obs.
1663Cowley Cutter Coleman St. ii. v, Mean time, thou pretty little Smith o' my good fortune, beat hard upon the Anvil of your Plot, I'l go and provide the Spankers. a1668Denham Dialogue Poems (1771) 77 Your cure too costs you but a spanker. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 269 Tho' he can produce more Spankers Than all the Usurers and Bankers. 1708Motteux Rabelais, Pant. Progn. vi, Old Gold, such as your Double Ducats, Rose-Nobles, Angels, Spankers, Spur-Royals. 1760Foote Minor ii. Wks. 1799 I. 250 Procure you the spankers, my boy. I have a broker, that..shall take off your bargain. 1785in Grose.
2. a. dial. and colloq. Anything exceptionally large or fine; a person, animal, or thing of superior quality or character.
1751Smollett Per. Pic. xcv, To turn me adrift in the dark with such a spanker. 1838W. H. Maxwell Stories Waterloo I. 208 Miss O'Brien was what Rattigan called a spanker. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xvi, Her passage either way, is almost certain to eventuate a spanker! 1865― Mut. Fr. i. xv, Your new establishment:..it's to be a spanker. 1888W. Rogers Mem. West ii. 32 [We] are soon rewarded by a brace or so of spankers [sc. fish], whose appearance in our basket [etc.].
b. A heavy blow or smack.
1772Bridges Burlesque Homer 491 (Farmer), Ajax gave him two such spankers, They smarted worse than nodes and shankers. 1894Meredith Ld. Ormont i, Matey's sure aim..relieving J. Masner of a foremost assailant with a spanker on the nob.
3. Naut.
a. A fore-and-aft sail, set with a gaff and boom at the aftermost part of the ship. Cf. also driver 5 and mizen 1.
1794Rigging & Seamanship 162 The Driver-boom, on which the foot of the driver, or spanker, is extended. 1804Log ‘Victory’ 15 June in Nicolas Disp. Nelson (1846) VI. 72 Wore and set the mainsail and spanker. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxv, There was no sail now on the ship but the spanker and the close-reefed main topsail. 1894Clark Russell Good Ship Mohock I. 55 He..told the officer..to brail up the spanker.
attrib.1794Rigging & Seamanship 217 The Driver or Spanker Sail is bent as a temporary matter. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxiii, One boy at the spanker-sheet and guy. 1840F. D. Bennett Whaling Voy. II. 66 A frigate bird alighted on the spanker-gaff. 1894C. N. Robinson Brit. Fleet 251 The last decade of the last century, when the spanker-gaff and boom came in.
b. In full spanker mast. The fourth (or fifth) mast of a ship with four or more masts.
1853D. McLean Great Republic 17 The ship has 4 masts, the after one named the spanker mast. 1892Nautical Mag. June 546 During the first four years of the four-posters, the ‘after mizzen’ and ‘spanker mast’ were sometimes heard of. 1902[see pusher 2 b]. 1946Amer. Neptune VI. 138/1 Mr. Bush called the fourth mast the ‘jigger’ and the fifth the ‘spanker’, the reverse of the usual nomenclature. 1970H. Chevalier Last Voyage of Rosamond 37 We soon not only learned the names of the four masts—the foremast, the mainmast, the mizzen and the spanker.
4. dial. (See quots.)
1808Jamieson, Spanker, one who walks in a quick and elastic way. 1811Willan in Archaeologia XVII. 159 Spanker, a tall, and active young person. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Spanker, a person who takes long steps with agility.
5. dial. and colloq. A horse which travels quickly and smartly; a fast-going horse.
1814Scott Wav. xxxix, And ye wanted a spanker that would lead the field,..I would serve ye easy. 1836Haliburton Clockm. i. xix, That are horse goes etarnal fast... He's a spanker you may depend. 1870Thornbury Tour rd. Eng. I. ii. 31 The spankers strike out and away they do go..from Hounslow to Staines.
6. U.S. A light cart suitable for rapid travelling.
1831in A. E. Lee Hist. Columbus (1892) I. 318 Our vehicle, which in the dialect of the country was called a spanker, was intended for four persons.
▪ II. ˈspanker2
[f. spank v.1]
One who, or that which, spanks or slaps.
1892Newcastle Daily Jrnl. 1 Jan. 8/3 A wonderful invention to serve three purposes—a self-rocking cradle, a clothes wringer, and a ‘baby spanker.’ 1931K. Boyle Plagued by Nightingale iv. 28 Washer⁓women bending over the stream..and with wooden spankers beating the life out of dish-cloths. |