Usually means: Sail designed for downwind use.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. spinnaker: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spinnaker: Merriam-Webster
  3. spinnaker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spinnaker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spinnaker: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spinnaker: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spinnaker, spinnaker: Wordnik
  8. spinnaker: Wiktionary
  9. spinnaker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. spinnaker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. spinnaker: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. spinnaker: Dictionary.com
  13. spinnaker: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. SpiNNaker, Spinnaker (disambiguation), Spinnaker (software), Spinnaker, The Spinnaker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Spinnaker: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. spinnaker: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. spinnaker: Rhymezone
  18. Spinnaker: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. spinnaker: FreeDictionary.org
  20. spinnaker: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. spinnaker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. spinnaker: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spinnaker: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spinnaker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Spinnaker: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spinnaker: Sports Definitions

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (nautical) A sail supplemental to the mainsail, especially a triangular one, used on yachts for running before the wind.
▸ verb:  (nautical) To sail using a spinnaker

Similar:
spin, spinney, asymmetrical spinnaker, whisker pole, windsail, spinnel, Spanish windlass, cruising chute, spinathon, wingsail, more...

Opposite:
jib, mainsail, staysail, genoa, foresail

Types:
asymmetrical, symmetrical, cruising, light air, heavy air, reacher, runner, more...

Phrases:
spinnaker pole, parachute spinnaker, asymmetrical spinnaker, Spinnaker Tower, more...

Adjectives:
big, small, asymmetrical, new, large, red, flat, huge, symmetrical, blue, conventional
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Similar:
spin, spinney, asymmetrical spinnaker, whisker pole, windsail, spinnel, Spanish windlass, cruising chute, spinathon, wingsail, more...

Opposite:
jib, mainsail, staysail, genoa, foresail

Types:
asymmetrical, symmetrical, cruising, light air, heavy air, reacher, runner, more...

Phrases:
spinnaker pole, parachute spinnaker, asymmetrical spinnaker, Spinnaker Tower, more...

Adjectives:
big, small, asymmetrical, new, large, red, flat, huge, symmetrical, blue, conventional



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