Word Meanings - SPINNAKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind.

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• TRIANGULAR
  Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem. Triangular compasses, compasses with three legs for taking off the angular points of a triangle, or any three points at the same time. -- Triangular crab
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• RUNNINGLY
  In a running manner.
• TRIANGULARES
  The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider.
• LARGE-ACRED
  Possessing much land.
• RUNNING
  Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine. (more info) 1. Moving or advancing by running. Specifically, of a horse; Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer. trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse.
• TRIANGULARITY
  The quality or state of being triangular. Bolingbroke.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• LARGE-HANDED
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• LARGE-HEARTED
  Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal. -- Large"-heart`ed*ness, n.
• RUNNET
  See RENNET
• RUNNER
  A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil. 7. The rotating stone of a set of millstones. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer. 2. A
• LARGE
  Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter. At large. Without restraint or confinement; as, to go at large; to be left at large. Diffusely; fully;
• LARGET
  A sport piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet.
• RUNNEL
  A rivulet or small brook. Buddling rundels joined the sound. Collins. By the very sides of the way . . . there are slow runnels, in which one can see the minnows swimming. Masson.
• LARGESS; LARGESSE
  1. Liberality; generosity; bounty. Fulfilled of largesse and of all grace. Chaucer. 2. A present; a gift; a bounty bestowed. The heralds finished their proclamation with their usual cry of "Largesse, largesse, gallant knights!" and gold and silver
• TRIANGULARLY
  In a triangular manner; in the form of a triangle. Dampier.
• BEFORE
  1. In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house. His angel, who shall go Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire. Milton. 2. Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when;
• LARGELY
  In a large manner. Dryden. Milton.
• LARGENESS
  The quality or state of being large.
• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• STONERUNNER
  The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. The dotterel.
• SUBTRIANGULAR
  Nearly, but not perfectly, triangular. Darwin.
• OVERRUNNER
  One that overruns. Lovelace.
• TRUNNEL
  A trundle.
• HEREINBEFORE
  In the preceding part of this .
• INRUNNING
  The act or the place of entrance; an inlet. Tennyson.