Usually means: Sail positioned at mast's aft.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word spanker:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. spanker: Merriam-Webster
  2. spanker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spanker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spanker: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spanker: Vocabulary.com
  6. Spanker, spanker: Wordnik
  7. Spanker: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. spanker: Wiktionary
  9. spanker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. spanker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. spanker: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. spanker: Dictionary.com
  13. Spanker (horse), Spanker (sail), Spanker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Spanker: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. spanker: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. spanker: Rhymezone
  17. Spanker: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. spanker: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Spanker: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  20. Spanker: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. spanker: FreeDictionary.org
  22. spanker: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. spanker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. spanker: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spanker, spanker, spanker, spanker, spanker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. spanker: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Spanker: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (spanker)

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

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