Spencer

·noun A short jacket worn by men and by women.

II. Spencer ·noun One who has the care of the spence, or buttery.

III. Spencer ·noun A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast;

— named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802].