spanker
- n a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand
my father was the designated spanker in our family - n a fore-and-aft sail set on the aftermost lower mast (usually the mizzenmast) of a vessel
- The spanker was George Alexandroff, propaganda chief of the party's Central Committee, who took space in mighty Pravda to attack Ehrenburg's contention that all.
- Throughout a 72-hour storm with canvas cut to staysail spanker, Lieutenant de Drambour stayed on the bridge of his ship, while the crates shifted wildly, threatened any .
- Her invective was interrupted by a nine-year-old, naked to the waist, who cried: "This is no spud field for you, old spanker it's a football field for us.