spanker

IPA: spˈæŋkɝ

Someone who spanks.
An instrument used to give someone a spanking or spank, such as a paddle.
(nautical) A fore-and-aft gaff-rigged sail on the aft-most mast of a square-rigged vessel.
(dated, music) A musician who plays his instrument well.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A small coin.
(dated) One who takes long, quick strides in walking.
(dated) A swift horse.
(dated, slang) Something very large, or larger than usual; a whopper.
(dated, slang) Something splendid; a fine example of its kind.

Examples of "spanker" in Sentences

I was the last to go below, doing so just as the watch on deck was furling the spanker.
I continued, dismissing further reflection upon the etymology of "spanker" to a more fitting occasion.
They had found the "spanker" of the _Pandora_ floating about, with its boom and all the cordage attached.
Elsinore, naked-sparred, under only lower-topsails, with spanker and crojack furled, was prepared for anything.
My force have got a brand spanker Audi S4 for use by the burglary task force, pro-active units and volume crime squads.
The students got in touch with The Hook, the spanker was arrested, and he’s being sent back to the U.S. to serve his 3.5 year sentence for taking indecent liberties with minors.
Borckman explained that he had a touch of fever, and Van Horn deferred stating his doubts until a few minutes later, squatting in the shade of the spanker with Jerry in his arms, he told Jerry all about it.
The band derived its name from an Austin street where they would often busk that was nicknamed Asylum Street, now named Guadalupe Street, and the term "spanker" which is an old musician's term for "one who plays his instrument vigorously and proficiently".
We passed a ship, two schooners, and a four-masted barkentine under the smallest of canvas, and at eleven o'clock, running up the spanker and jib, we hove her to, and in another hour we were beating back again against the aftersea under full sail to regain the sealing ground away to the westward.