单词 | spanker mast |
释义 | > as lemmasspanker mast b. In full spanker mast. The fourth (or fifth) mast of a ship with four or more masts. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > other masts on ships with more than three spanker1853 pusher1901 1853 D. McLean Great Republic 17 The ship has 4 masts, the after one named the spanker mast. 1892 Nautical Mag. June 546 During the first four years of the four-posters, the ‘after mizzen’ and ‘spanker mast’ were sometimes heard of. 1901 Daily Rev. (Decatur, Illinois) (Electronic text) 2 Dec. The nomenclature of the masts has been settled by the owner, Captain J. C. Crowley, who calls them, respectively, fore, main, mizzen, spanker, jigger, driver and pusher. 1946 Amer. Neptune VI. 138/1 Mr. Bush called the fourth mast the ‘jigger’ and the fifth the ‘spanker’, the reverse of the usual nomenclature. 1970 H. Chevalier Last Voy. Rosamond 37 We soon not only learned the names of the four masts—the foremast, the mainmast, the mizzen and the spanker. < as lemmas |
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