Crossword-Solution: SPANKERS 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Then, turning to Felix: “They belonged to an actor who hired half of my studio and left them to pay for his rent, which they didn't do, not by a long chalk, and--Oh, here's another hat--and, oh, such a lovely old cloak! Yes, take 'em all, missy--I'm glad to get rid of 'em--before Nat claps them on Jane and goes in for Puritan maidens and Lady Gay Spankers.

For they fell with the point downwards, and in they stuck, or slit the continuum of some member, or lopped it off like a twig; either of which generally was enough to have killed a man, though he were a hundred years old, and worth as many thousand spankers, spur-royals, and rose-nobles.

Most of us are clearing hawse, for there are more round turns in our cables, than I remember ever to have seen in so short a time." "That comes of there being no wind, and the uselessness of the stay-sails and spankers.

Back in the ages, dusty, maculated, Across the slate-hued fogs of time, Behold them!--oblongs of sliding water And cubed banks, Bridges and barges, blatantly, wonderfully, inconceivably angular, Calling, clamouring--canal, canal, canal! Out on the sea, restive and sloppy, A waste of salinity, So they aver, There are ships with masts, sails, halyards, Spankers, booms and things; There are lobsters and jellyfish--not here.

They fell a-yawning, and said that they were the devils of luxury: “But since the women have taken a fancy to prefer guinies and jacobusses before their modesty and honour, there has been no need of a devil in the case to tempt them; for ’tis but showing them the merry spankers, they’ll dare like larks, and fall down before ye, and then ye may e’en do what you will with them, and take them up in a purse-net.