Crossword-Solution: SPINNAKER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spinnaker | n. | A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “SPINNAKER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BALLOON sail | 1 answer |
| JIB-shaped sail | 1 answer |
| Large triangular sail | 1 answer |
| Large yacht sail | 1 answer |
| RACING yacht sail used when running before wind | 1 answer |
| Racing yacht's large triangular sail. | 1 answer |
| Sail at the America's Cup | 1 answer |
| Sail bark regularly, wearing bowler | 1 answer |
| Sail for a downwind course | 1 answer |
| Sail that looks kinda like a parachute | 1 answer |
| large sail on a racing yacht | 1 answer |
| THREE-cornered sail | 2 answers |
| triangular sail | 9 answers |
| YACHT rigging/sail, type of | 11 answers |
| Sail | 59 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SPINNAKER (5)
There were no more squalls, naught but fine weather, a fair wind, and a whirling log, with sheets slacked off and with spinnaker and mainsail swaying and bellying on either side.
The chickens had got loose and were everywhere, roosting on the awnings, fluttering and squawking out on the jib-boom, and essaying the perilous feat of balancing on the spinnaker-boom.
Jean Bart hastily hauled up the jib, and the triangle of canvas, full of wind, looked like a wing; then, with two strides to the stern, he let out the spinnaker, which was close-reefed against his mast.
But what is this that happens just as the enemy has got round the Nore? There is a cry of "Man overboard!" The spinnaker boom has caught the careless skipper and pitched him clean into the plashing waters, where he floats about, not as yet certain, probably, what course his vessel will take.
Their long booms gave them an advantage over the schooners and the yawl when before the wind; the spinnaker was not then invented, and the wind was not sufficiently dead aft to enable the schooners to carry their mainsail and foresails, wing and wing; or for the yawl's mizzen to help her.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1951–2010).