A large sail formerly used with the wind aft or quartering. It was a square sail cut like a studding-sail, and set with a great yard on the end of the spanker-boom, across the taffrail. The name latterly has been officially applied to the spanker, both being the aftermost sails of a ship, the ring-tail being only an addition, as a studding or steering sail. (See steering-sail.) Also, the foremost spur in the bilge-ways, the heel of which is fayed to the fore-side of the foremost poppet, and the sides of it look fore and aft. Also, a sort of fishing-boat.
1) An overseer of slaves. 2) He or that which drives; a coachman, a carman.--Worcester. The English...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
A term used by lumbermen in Maine, for a man whose business it is to conduct logs down rilnuing stre...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.