spanker
Rear mast canvas
A spanker is someone or something that spanks—delivers open-handed blows, typically to the buttocks as discipline or during sex.
In sailing, a spanker is a fore-and-aft sail set on the aftermost mast of a square-rigged ship.
Informally, spanker can mean something remarkably fine or fast: That horse is a real spanker.
Principal vessel canvas
halyard · clew · tack · leech · luff · rigging · fore-and-aft · mizzenmast
Multi-masted sailing craft
- yachtLarge pleasure vessel
- ketchTwo-masted fore-and-aft vessel
- barqueMulti-masted sailing vessel
- brigShipboard detention quarters
clipper · windjammer · sailboat · brigantine
Severe sustained wind
- breezeLight, gentle air movement
- squallBrief, violent windstorm
- gustBrief wind surge
- close-hauledSailing near wind's eye
mainsail
Principal vessel canvas
sheet · halyard · clew · tack · leech · luff · rigging · fore-and-aft · mizzenmast · stern
schooner
Multi-masted sailing craft
brig · clipper · windjammer · sailboat · brigantine
gale
Severe sustained wind
close-hauled · running · tack · headwind · tailwind
outstanding
Exceptionally good or unpaid
- remarkableWorthy of attention
- exceptionalNotably above the norm
- strikingNoticeably impressive
stunning · whopper · doozy · corker · humdinger · beaut · cracker · belter
spankerjib
Triangular sail forward
headsail · genoa · forestaysail · foresail · spinnaker
spankerdud
Failed device or effort
flop · disappointment · mediocrity · letdown · clunker
- brand spanking newCompletely unused, just acquired
- spanking newCompletely fresh and unused
- spank bankStored erotic mental imagery
- spank the monkeyMale self-gratification slang
- spanked itAchieved emphatic success