Definitions for spinnaker

spinnaker spin·na·ker

Spelling: [spin-uh-ker]
IPA: /ˈspɪn ə kər/

Spinnaker is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 557 anagrams from letters in spinnaker (aeiknnprs).

Definitions for spinnaker

noun

  1. a large, usually triangular sail carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind or when the wind is abaft the beam.

Origin of spinnaker

First recorded in 1865-70; said to be alteration of Sphinx, name of the first yacht making regular use of this sail

Examples for spinnaker

The spinnaker must be the same size as the jibs in these races.

If Charley has finished pumping, you might help him get out the spinnaker.

Then we'll rig a foretopmast and a spinnaker boom on her, and bend a fisherman's staysail.

He had been springing about at a great rate that morning, shifting the spinnaker.

With our spinnaker "set" we just skimmed homeward, reaching Warren in an hour.

I understand it all right, but when it comes to doing it, it comes out just like that spinnaker.

His material must be conveyed across spinnaker Lake in some other way.

"There's plenty of room on spinnaker for both of us, I think," Parker replied, quietly.

"They are just getting the spinnaker on deck," said Jack, nodding toward the bows.

Such a spinnaker will be more effective than a big (p. 301) one on an ocean cruise.

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