Usage examples for spanker
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It was at night, in our watch, and the wind had headed us off a little rather suddenly, and when we had flattened in the jibs, we clewed down the topsails, while the two Benton boys got the spanker sheet aft. – Man Overboard! by F(rancis) Marion Crawford
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Shure that's the place where I run me head slap up agin the spanker- boom four days ago. – The Red Eric by R.M. Ballantyne