Crossword-Solution: SPANKER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spanker | n. | One who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for spanking. |
| Spanker | n. | The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail. |
| Spanker | n. | One who takes long, quick strides in walking; also, a fast horse. |
| Spanker | n. | Something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as a stout or tall person. |
| Spanker | n. | A small coin. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “SPANKER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A sail | 1 answer |
| Old-fashioned parent? | 1 answer |
| Parent of a naughty child, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Sail on a schooner | 1 answer |
| fore-and-aft sail or a mast that is aftermost in a sailing vessel | 1 answer |
| Schooner sail | 2 answers |
| fore-and-aft sail | 5 answers |
| Sails | 7 answers |
| ANY TRIANGULAR FORE-AND-AFT SAIL | 10 answers |
| Whopper | 34 answers |
| Sail | 59 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SPANKER (5)
Her forestaysail and mizzen spanker were set as though an effort had been made to hold her head up into the wind, but the sheets had parted, and the sails were tearing to ribbons in the half gale of wind.
There's her ensign upside down at the mizz'nhead--looks like Norway--an' her distress signals on the spanker gaff.
The spanker was brailed up, and the spanker boom thrashed idly over the poop as the bark rolled and rolled and rolled.
Thrice he repeated the call, and thrice the dismal thrashing of the spanker boom and the flapping of the sails was the only answer.
The boy can as well bring four-and-twenty pints, and travel twice as once.--A first-rate spanker, cap’en, was it? Yes?’ ‘A most e--tarnal spanker,’ said the skipper.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1952–1999).